[SoC] Re: OSGeo Google Summer of Code

[Jody Garnett]

Adjusted the page a bit ... you seem to have misplaced GeoServer :-)

JTileCache was actually for GeoServer, the caching data in uDig seems 
mostly to be GeoTools work etc ... reworked it into a table.

> Cory Horner wrote:
>> Last year it was based on score, so we ended up with our top 3 which 
>> was not what we wanted.  For our safety we should probably fix the 
>> scores to what we collectively want.
> ...
I am also not sure we could adjust are score once given.

>> 1) we sort out which applications belong to which projects (this is 
>> simple in most cases, but some applications are multi-project)
>> 2) each project ranks their proposals independently
>> 3) we all meet and decide which projects get the slots depending on 
>> how many slots we get.  ie slot #1 goes to GRASS, slot #2 to GDAL, 
>> etc...
>>
>> We can then score the projects based on these...
>
> Cory / everyone,
>
> Agreed.  I have created a wiki page with the applications that have 
> associated
> mentor offers, and segregated by project.  I'd appreciate it if the
> GeoTools/uDig folks could confirm my categorization of their 
> applications as
> some of them weren't immediately obvious to me.
>
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/SoC_Application_Rankings_by_Project
>
> Based on the number of acceptable applications I would suggest we 
> assign our
> slots in this order:
>
>  1 - GRASS #1
>  2 - GDAL #1
>  3 - GeoTools #1
>  4 - uDig #1
>  5 - PostGIS #1
>  6 - GRASS #2
>  7 - GDAL #2
>  8 - GeoTools #2
>  9 - uDig #2
> 10 - GRASS #3
> and so on.
Keep the table I just made in mind, some proposal benifit several 
projects (like say the PostGIS or GeoTools proposals - do we wish to 
take that into account?)
> I would like each project PSC to decide on their preferred ordering, 
> and from
> those mentors that offered to take an application, which they would 
> like to
> select for the task.  Please update the wiki page as decisions are 
> made, and
> make a note there that things are set, ideally with a reference back 
> to a PSC
> motion though that isn't critical.
We will bring it up next meeting - I think the final deadline is April 6th?
> It looks like April 11th is when approved students are announced.  I 
> don't know
> how long it takes them to do the selection.  I'd guess it is 
> automatic, so
> likely not very long.  But I'd like to aim to have all PSC decisions 
> made and
> the wiki updated by April 9th, and then Landon or I will update the point
> scores to put things in the selected order.
>
> Any objections to this approach?
Just a technical one - I am not sure you can "re"vote.

Jody