[SoC] Re: OSGeo Google Summer of Code

[Jody Garnett]

Hey Chris ... I made up a table of the different "GeoTools"ish proposals 
- including the JTileCache one for GeoServer ... do you mind reviewing 
to see if I got the right categorization? I know Andrea was interested 
in the data caching proposal even though it had uDig in the title.

Jody
> Could we get a GeoServer slot?  I'm fine if it's after PostGIS.  We 
> got two specific applications, one that's really good, but there's 
> also two really good GeoTools apps, so if we have wait for a GeoTools 
> slot then it might not make it, and we have a few people signed up 
> specifically for GeoServer mentorships.
>
> Chris
>
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> 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.
>> ...
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Best regards,
>
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