[SoC] Students 2015: 1-minute showcase of your project!

[Margherita Di Leo]

Dear Students,

this is a gentle reminder that your contributions are due by the end of
this week. Thank you to the students who already contributed to the wiki
page! Your kind cooperation in meeting the deadline will allow us admin to
prepare the report for the OSGeo Newsletter in time. Please do not delay!

Thank you and best regards,
Your GSoC Admins
Madi & Anne

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear GSoC students 2015,
>
> I have published at this page [1] the results of this year. Once again, I
> want to congratulate with you for the excellent work done!
>
> I'd like to ask you one last effort. In order to make the results of your
> work accessible to the broader community, I'd like to get from each of you
> one slide (you can use for example Impress, or GIMP, or the software you
> like the best, to produce an image) and a descriptive paragraph, containing
> the following elements:
>
>
>    1.
>
>    The state of the project as it was before your GSoC. For example, if
>    you made a GUI, you can say: “ in the software XYZ, when I wanted to use
>    the tool xxx, I had to manually edit the file yyy. “
>    2.
>
>    The addition that your project brought to the software. In the same
>    example: “with the GUI that I created, now it is possible to use the tool
>    xxx via graphical user interface”.
>    3.
>
>    The slide / image should serve to show the main elements of your
>    project. It could be a flow chart, a screenshot, both, or whatever you
>    think could serve for the scope. Important: the aim is to showcase
>    your project to people that are not necessarily familiar with the software.
>    4.
>
>    Finally, please add all the links (hopefully permanent) to access the
>    relevant code and documentation for the user to get started with testing
>    your application.
>
>
> I understand all this could sound to you as an additional burden. However,
> remember that the scope of GSoC is to produce pieces of software that can
> be actually used by the community. Not all the members of the community
> had the opportunity to follow the progresses of your GSoC project in
> detail. That’s why we want to showcase all the projects in this manner. All
> your slides and descriptions can for example be readily used at community
> meetings and events! Feel free to reuse material that you have produced for
> your weekly reports. If you have any doubts, feel free to contact us at any
> time.
>
> Please add the material here [1], preferably within next week - we would
> like to reuse the material for presenting the results of GSoC 2015 at the
> FOSDEM conference in January.
>
> Thank you and all the best,
>
> Madi & Anne
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2015_Results
>
> --
> Margherita Di Leo
>



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Margherita Di Leo
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