Wonderful news Madi and Anne! Thank you both for pushing this. And I
really like the plan to promote the integration between OSGeo projects.
-jeff
On 2015-03-03 5:41 AM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
Dear All,
it is our pleasure to announce that *OSGeo has been accepted as
mentoring organization* also this year! [1]
The OSGeo GSoC Team has been reshaped with respect to former
communications, and it's now composed by myself (Madi) in the role of
primary admin and the experienced Anne Ghisla in the role of co-admin.
Now it's time for prospecting students to carefully browse the list of
ideas and contact developers team of their interest. Mentor registration
is not yet open and will be announced in due time. Students can
officially apply on Melange from 16th to 27th of March.
All, do keep an eye (and a calendar client reminder) on all *GSoC 2015
dates* [2]!
This year, we will be using slightly different *procedure for assigning
slots* to selected projects. The experience from previous years made it
possible to define the criteria that will be applied this year, and
hopefully will be improved in the future:
1. Each project requires at least *two mentors*. The soundness of the
project, the selection of reliable mentors and student is responsibility
of its community. However, this year we strongly encourage the community
to assign to the wannabe-GSoC-student some small programming tasks or
bug fixes, in order to be sure that (s)he is familiar with the selected
software, the programming environment, version control system, mailing
list, etc and can code. Particular attention should be paid in the
selection of mentors that *won't disappear* in the course of the GSoC.
2. Each OSGeo software will have *one* slot assigned, provided that the
conditions at point 1 are met.
3. Like previous years, OSGeo will host some like-minded projects that
requested it, and will assign *1* slot to each guest, provided that the
conditions at point 1 are met.
4. This year we want to encourage projects that entail the*integration
between two or more OSGeo software*. For this reason, one extra slot
will be assigned to (sound) projects that aim at integrating two or more
software, provided that mentors of respective communities are involved.
5. If the number of slots will allow it, extra slots can be assigned to
projects that have gained a good *rate of success* in the course of past
years (reliable -not disappearing- mentors, student success, etc).
Further discussion on specific slot assignments will take place among
mentors in due time. This is the admins outline of this year's criteria.
Please send answers to this announcement*to soc [3] list*, and forward
this mail to all relevant mailing lists of your knowledge.
*/And now, let s do this thing!/*
*/http://tinyurl.com/l32yzgp/*
Yours enthusiastically,
Madi and Anne
OSGeo GSoC Admins 2015
[1]
http://google-opensource.blogspot.it/2015/03/mentoring-organizations-for-google.html
[2] https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015
[3] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc
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