[OpenLayers-Users] Google Summer of Code 2008

[Linda Rawson]

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:26 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
>
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Linda Rawson
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