[SoC] Slots

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Wolf,

You are the man. I owe you lunch if you ever come to Central California.

Landon

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Chris Whitney <chris.whitney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good to see OSGeo getting so many students.  With the increase to 20
> students, my project from last year looks like it will have a student
> working on it this year-- that is fun to see.
>
> Thanks for all of your help with OSGeo's SoC program.
>
> -- Chris Whitney
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Hats off again to Wolf, glad we are so well maintained. The extra slots
> > are a real coup. (How many OSGeo t-shirts did that cost us? ;)
> >
> > In case anyone forgot to do the math, (if all goes well) that's US$100,000
> > funding from Google for OSGeo projects this year! Holy cow. ($10k to the
> > foundation, $90k to students)  Yesterday it was at $45k.
> >
> >
> > I think it would be a nice idea for all OSGeo mentors to quickly read
> > through the top 20 :) rated applications and comment as needed. There is
> > a heck of a lot of overlap between all our projects and even mentors
> > might not be aware of a community resource that might be useful for
> > cross-pollination. It is of course most useful to find out that you are
> > about to reinvent the wheel when you are just starting out, and then can
> > apply your efforts to improvements instead of basics. The stronger our
> > projects begin the more successful they will be, and the more slots we
> > get next year. I found it to be an interesting exercise & read, anyway.
> > It's good to know what others are doing.
> >
> >
> > good on ya Wolf,
> > Hamish
> >
> > ps - I am curious to know the total number of OSGeo mentors we ended up
> > with? (vs number of eligible students). Anyone mentoring for more than one
> > OSGeo project? Similarly it might be nice to put on the wiki page who are
> > the mentor contacts for each OSGeo project, and the project's license.
> >
> >
> >
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