[Qgis-psc] Fwd: QGIS GSoC liaison officer

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

I'll do it if nobody else can - just point me in the right direction please....

Regards

Tim


> On 10 Apr 2017, at 2:30 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
> 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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