[SoC] Personnal info in application form

[Wolf Bergenheim]

Hmm good question.

I hadn't realized that this application is publicly visible (it hasn't
been before). Still we need to get that personal information. There
has been problems in the past that we haven't been able to reach our
students.

Perhaps I need to set up a google form to gather the information from
the students, but this would be suboptimal.. I need to think of
something. The best way would of course be that this info could be
gained from Melange, but alas that is not possible, which is why we
have this info.

Thanks for bringing this to light. I'll think of something. Perhaps
you should mention in your application that it is a public application
and that you will provide your contact info to your mentors and the
administrators on acceptance?

Best Regards,
Wolf Bergenheim
OSGeo GSoC 2010 Administrator

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 21:41, Daniel Morissette
<dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
>
> Jean-Denis,
>
> This sounds like a fair question, but would probably be better addressed on Google's SoC list since OSGeo has no control over the SoC tools provided by Google. Did you try sending the question on Google's list? (I think we'd all be interested in what their response is)
>
> Daniel
>
>
> Jean-Denis Giguere wrote:
>>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> Student proposals are hosted on the Google Open source Programs
>> Application Server at http://socghop.appspot.com/ .
>>
>> When students (like me :-) ) submit a proposal, they could make it
>> publicly available. I think it is a good thing to make the application
>> publicly available for different philosophical and pratical reasons.
>> Publicly available poposals are more likely to be read. They are
>> avaiable for people interesting by the project without being involve
>> as mentor.
>>
>> The osgeo application form require student phone number. If the
>> application form is public, this information is public. I'm not sure
>> that giving my private phone number on a publicly available site is a
>> very good privacy practice... ;-)
>>
>>
>> Do I see privacy concerns where they don't exist?
>>
>> Could we consider another way to give this information to the osgeo?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Jean-Denis :-)
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