[SoC] Re: [Marketing] GSoC 2008 Flyer

[Chris Whitney]

Looks good, thanks!

-- Chris Whitney

On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Wolf Bergenheim wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Thanks for the input. I've now modified the page to suit (well for  
> the projects I'm familiar with). I hope that other mentors will do  
> the same for their projects.
>
> Oh I fiddled around with the pages. The ideas page is now at:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008_Ideas
>
> The url makes more sense, don't you think?
>
> --Wolf
>
>
> On 03/13/2008 11:25 AM, Chris Whitney wrote:
>>    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
>>>
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