[SoC] SoC 2009

[Jesse Eichar]

Hi I am certainly willing to help out as well.  Is there anything I  
need to do to get the uDig project listed?  Or should I just send  
comments to the udig list and get people to sign up?


Jesse

On 9-Jan-09, at 11:18 PM, Wolf Bergenheim wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Happy new year to all and thank you all who made SoC 2008 a roaring
> success. :D
>
> Google has announced that SoC *will* run this year but at a reduced
> scale. However there is no guarantee that we will be accepted as an
> organization. To have a better chance I'd like to get an early start.
>
> So, let's get organized now for SoC 2009. If we can show that we  
> have a
> lot of potential students lined up I'm confident that it will help us
> get accepted and maybe help us get the projects we want.
>
> The first step would be to invite all who would be interested in
> mentoring to sign up to the OSGeo SoC mailing list[1]. At the same  
> time
> we should go through last year's ideas page and check off projects  
> that
> were done and that are no longer relevant. Once this is done it is  
> time
> to start to come up with new ideas. It would be really nice if we  
> could
> have a few ideas that cross the project boundaries. Yes I know it  
> can be
> difficult. We should also think about talking to other projects that  
> are
> somehow related to what we do, projects like PostGIS. Maybe work
> together on the Drupal Geo module?[2]
>
> Lets keep the discussion on the soc list so that people who aren't
> interested in Soc won't be too much annoyed. ;)
>
> So who's in?
>
> --Wolf
>
> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc
> [2] http://drupal.org/project/geo
>
> -- 
>
> <:3 )---- Wolf Bergenheim ----( 8:>
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