[Qgis-psc] Fwd: QGIS GSoC liaison officer

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all,
it would be bad not to do it. Werner, can't you take it?
I have participated to GSoC years ago. If *really* nobody is available,
 I can take it, but I have very little time to spare.
All the best.
I
Il giorno lun, 10/04/2017 alle 14.22 +0200, Werner Macho ha scritto:
> _Urgent_ action needed - otherwise QGIS will fail to have a GsoC
> project this year ..
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Margherita Di Leo <dileomargherita at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:10 PM
> Subject: Re: QGIS GSoC liaison officer
> To: Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>,
> "gsoc-adminosgeo.org" <gsoc-admin at osgeo.org>
> 
> 
> Dear Barry,
> 
> we heard nobody from qgis yet willing to act as liason. Note that the
> only task of the liason is to communicate to us the ranking of the
> proposals for this year. What should be happening behind the scene
> is:
> mentors from a software community (qgis) discuss via private email
> about the proposals and rank them, clearly indicating who is
> mentoring
> each proposals. At the end, the liason communicates to us how many
> slots qgis would like to request and who are the mentors for each
> proposal. The proposals must be sorted according to their ranking, as
> you might have seen for example done by pgrouting. You can see
> registered mentors here:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Administrative
> I see that 5 proposals were submitted for qgis. It seems obvious that
> this year you guys do not have the mentor capacity for all of them,
> if
> I were you I'd focus on one or 2 that are the very best among them,
> and discard the others. But you really need to discuss this among all
> the mentors (you can write them, finding the emails in the same
> administrative page, only remember do not discuss this in public
> mailing lists).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Barry Rowlingson
> <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > Margherita,
> > 
> >  do you know if there is a QGIS-GSoC liaison officer this year?
> > Alex
> > Bruy seems to have done it in previous years but says he is not
> > doing
> > it this year. Nobody on the qgis-dev mailing list seem to know
> > anything. Failing anyone stepping up to the task, I'd do it, but I
> > am
> > mentoring a project. I don't want it to fail because of this.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Barry
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Margherita Di Leo
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