[Live-demo] Google Summer of Code ideas for the LiveDVD

[Cameron Shorter]

I've set up a page for Google Summer of Code ideas here:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_GSoC_2010

What other ideas should we add?
Hamish, I wonder whether you would want to mentor a student who migrates 
liveDVD packages to .deb files?


    About the Live DVD

The OSGeo Live DVD packages a stack of 35 of the best Geospatial Open 
Source applications onto an Xubuntu based linux distribution.

 From the Arramagong DVD, people can trial the best GeoSpatial Open 
Source Software without installing any applications on their computer. 
It is a very powerful marketing tool for Open Source, ideal for handing 
out at conferences or to be used as the basis for Open Source training 
courses.

The DVD also comes with some windows installers for many of the 
GeoSpatial applications.


    About OSGeo's involvement in GSoC

This is the OSGeo LiveDVD page for Google Summer of Code 
<http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code> 2010. Here we 
will list project ideas and and other information related to the LiveDVD 
projects.

    * Official Google Summer of Code 2010 homepage
      <http://code.google.com/soc/>
    * OSGeo SoC 2010 homepage
      <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2010>

Promotion:

  OSGeo Flyer at http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/google_summer_of_code/OSGeo_GSoC_2010.pdf
  Videos at      http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/Videos
  More Flyers at http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers


    Timeline

(GSoC timeline 
<http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/timeline>) 


    * Mentoring organization applications open (March 8-12)

    * Accepted mentoring organizations announced (March 18)

    * *Interested students should initiate preliminary discussions with
      projects (March 18-29)*

    * Student applications open (March 29)
    * Deadline for student's applications (April 9)

    Registering your application early (before the deadline) allows us
    to give you feedback for revisions before the final deadline,
    enhancing your proposal and thus giving you a better chance of success. 

    * Mentor assignments and application reviews deadline (April 21)

    * Accepted proposals announced (April 26)

    * Community bonding time (getting to know the students)

    * Work Begins (May 24)

    * Midterm evaluation (July 12-16)

    * Pencils down! (August 9)
    * Final evaluations submitted to Google (August 16)


    Required Steps

    * List ideas
    * Assign Mentors to Ideas
    * Notify OSGeo
    * Mentors evaluate student applications
    * Accepted students announced
    * Students subscribe to email list and introduce themselves
    * Set up SVN access
          o Create a Wiki page for each accepted project, to be used as
            a progress reporting tool
    * Coding begins...
    * Students and mentors: Complete the Mid-term survey
    * Final commit and packaging for Google


    Ideas

    * Project ideas of your own are also most welcome.


      Automated testing of all projects

*Willing to Mentor:* /Cameron Shorter/

The LiveDVD contains a simple list of test steps for each geospatial 
application here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing .

Many project also have their own automated testing systems.

What would be very useful would be one, or a set of automated testing 
processes, which would run all applications and verify they work.


      Consistent dataset across projects

*Willing to Mentor:* /Cameron Shorter/

Currently applications have all been packaged with their own datasets. 
This results in multiple, similar datasets all on the DVD taking up 
valuable room. It also makes it difficult to compare the different 
applications.

This project would involve aligning all projects to use a core set of 
datasets. It would likely involve updating documentation for many of the 
applications.


      Multi-language support

*Willing to Mentor:* /(your name here)/


    Accepted Ideas

    * TBD


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