[SoC] Re: [Marketing] GSoC 2008 Flyer

[Chris Whitney]

	I think that page is a fitting student landing page.  When I was  
applying for Summer of Code 2007, I was new to all of the OSGeo  
projects.  Thus, I was mainly looking for a quick summary of project,  
a link to the project homepage, a link to the project ideas page, and  
project mailing lists / IRC-- all of that information is on the page  
you linked.  It also might be useful to have a quick summary of what  
OSGeo is + how it acts an umbrella for the Summer of Code process.   
Putting the project's primary programming language into the project  
description is also handy, since most students tend to only apply for  
projects written in languages that they are comfortable with (the  
OpenLayers description is a very good example).

-- Chris Whitney


On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Wolf Bergenheim wrote:

> A few more thoughts about the flyer.
>
> You could drop the part about mentoring organizations, since that  
> closed  about 8 hours ago. Snooping in our Wiki I came across this  
> page [1]. Which is perhaps more student friendly. So perhaps the  
> Flyer should direct the students there.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2008_SoC_Merged_Ideas
>
> --Wolf
>
> On 03/12/2008 09:50 PM, Wolf Bergenheim wrote:
>> On 03/12/2008 08:12 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>>> Jody Garnett wrote:
>>>> Jody Garnett wrote:
>>>>> Please note that as projects graduate from incubation you will  
>>>>> need to find an avenue other than the incubation list to talk to  
>>>>> them :-)
>>>> Opps; I missunderstood your first sentence. Regardless the Flyer  
>>>> looks good.
>>>> Jody
>>> All,
>>> is it right that 4.5k go to each student? Not that we promise  
>>> something we cannot fulfill.
>> Yes each successful student gets $4500.
>>>
>>> Where should we point to, currently it is this page:
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/2008_Google_SoC_Application
>> Not there at least. Our application lists this page as the page to  
>> go to:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
>>>
>>> We should either beautify that page (remove "Don't bother to edit  
>>> it any further", etc.) or create another entry page from where we  
>>> can link to this and the Google SoC page . Or is it good as it is?  
>>> In the end we are talking to developers...
>> That was the page where we made the application to the Google (our  
>> application).
>> --Wolf
>
> -- 
>
> <:3 )---- Wolf Bergenheim ----( 8:>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Soc mailing list
> Soc at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc