[SoC] Wrap up and code submission

[Hamish]

Hi all,

Students, by now you should all have your results! This has been
perhaps our most successful summer yet, so a big thank you goes out to
everybody for all your hard work. We know that working mostly on your
own, often half a world away from your colleagues, is very tough
business, and hope that this experience will stead you well in the
years to come, as these are and will be valuable skills to master.

The next step for students is to upload your code to Google. For those
of you who have been merging directly into the HEAD/trunk this will
likely be a series of commit patches, for those of you working on
stand-alone modules this will be somewhat easier, just send the files.
The structure should be clear and limited to your own work, as far as
possible. It doesn't have to compile.

In Melange, navigate to My Dashboard, then in Projects click on your
project and select Code samples.


And just because the official period of the summer is over does not
mean you have to stop working on your project! Often there were some
little or big features which didn't quite get finished, some other
tangent of code which looked really interesting but was beyond the
scope of your timeline, or some other project either in your project's
software or another's which looked remarkably interesting. Whatever you
like, it's up to you now to contribute where you like to. There are
many itches to scratch in the land of FOSS, the main thing we hope for
is that you stay involved with a rewarding coding community, learn
stuff, and have fun doing it!

We love feedback about the good and the bad of how the summer went,
since your experiences will help make next year's SoC better on both the
students and the hosting projects. Feel free to email us admins
privately if you prefer, we'll keep your comments between us.

Also, Google's GSoC blog loves to post your writeups about how the
summer went, new things you learned, details about exactly what you did
and how you did it. It's a great showcase for you and your work, and an
big opportunity which shouldn't be passed up. We're a bit lucky as lots
of our coding projects produce maps and pretty pictures, and people
really really love to look at maps and pretty pictures. So write it all
down while it's still fresh, take some screenshots, and post back here
when you're ready. We'll forward it on to both Google's Open Source
Office and the planet.osgeo.org aggregator. If you're after a more
formal published academic article, the OSGeo Journal might be very
interested in your writeup. Published articles can be a very nice
addition to your CV for future grad school applications or a job, and
you're in an easy position to quickly write that up and show off your
work right now.


regards, thanks, and congratulations to all, and good luck in the fall
term --

  Hamish, Anne and Dustan
  your 2014 OSGeo GSoC admin team


ps- if you have entered and won a spot in the lottery for the 10 year
GSoC Reunion, please do drop us a note. It's invisible to us who has
requested or been chosen to go!