[OpenLayers-Users] Google Summer of Code 2008

[Zac Spitzer]

how about extending the types of maps supported by tilecache?

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Erik Uzureau <euzuro at gmail.com> wrote:
> This in from the OS-Geo mailing list...
>  if anyone has some ideas of potential projects they could think of,
>  please let the list know.
>
>  Erik
>
>
>
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  From: Wolf Bergenheim <wolf+grass at bergenheim.net>
>  Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:53 AM
>  Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Google Summer of Code 2008
>
>
> To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, OSGeo SoC <soc at lists.osgeo.org>
>
>
>  Hello fellow OSGeoers!
>
>  Google is about to announce summer of code 2008, and this year I'd like
>  to be a bit more prepared.
>
>  So for this reason I have updated our old SoC Wiki page [1] with
>  information for this year.
>
>  Each project should now start to think of ideas and also who their
>  mentors should be.
>
>  We should also decide on a uniform way to review the student
>  applications. Do we need/want to have an entry exam? A few questions
>  about gis and some simple generic programming task? Do you have other ideas?
>
>  As for the ideas themselves it seems that the trend is to have not very
>  detailed but not too generic ideas either. These semi-generic ideas
>  should get the creative juices of the students to flow, which should
>  help us in finding the best and the brightest. I think this is good
>  advice, it will allow us to judge the applications also on the base of
>  what the students come up with.
>
>  Also we should create a wiki page for each application we find even a
>  bit interesting to flesh it out during the review period.
>
>  In the Google SoC wiki page [2] they have some very good advice. If you
>  want to be a mentor, be sure to read them, then talk among your selves
>  and decide on who the mentor(s) should be. Google recommends 2 mentors
>  per student (plus 1 generic backup mentor), but that depends a bit on
>  the mentors (and students), and if you are going to have a summer vacation.
>
>  So project mentors or people interested in SoC, please read [1] and [2]
>  and maybe start working on the idea page of your project.
>
>  [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code
>  [2] http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors
>
>  Looking forward to another Summer of Code,
>  --Wolf
>
>  --
>
>  <:3 )---- Wolf Bergenheim ----( 8:>
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