Dear Madi, I offer for collaborating with you in maintaining the gsoc... that I believe is very precious for OSGeo...
Maxi Il 11 nov 2016 2:24 PM, "Margherita Di Leo" <direg...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Dear OSGeo Fellows, > > earlier this month, Anne and I attended GSoC Mentors Summit at Google's > Tech Corners in California as OSGeo delegates, and also had the chance to > visit NASA Ames Research Center, as our mentor for NASA WorldWind, Patrick > Hogan, graciously hosted us for a guided tour! (Thank you again Patrick!). > > (Partly) recovered from the jet-lag, it is now time to make some > reflections and decide how to follow up in this great experience that is > the Google Summer of Code. Talking to Anne, she frankly said that she > doesn't wish to continue as GSoC admin for the next year. Actually, wen I > stepped in as admin 2 years ago, she had already decided to quit, but > nevertheless, she continued for another two years. Now I think we already > abused her availability. > > From my side, I wish to continue, and I actually wanted even explore the > possibility to participate in the Google Code-in [1]. But this is another > story, that deserves another dedicated thread. It is late to apply for it > this year, so there will be time to discuss it over. > > My most important point here is: we need a GSoC admins team. Ideally > another 2 people, that are willing to work together with me to continue the > great OSGeo's experience in GSoC. This is not paid work, however, > traditionally 2 GSoC admins have the honor to attend the yearly mentor > summit in California, hosted in the Google premises, and the expenses > reimbursed by Google. > > Notwithstanding my good will to continue in the role of admin, I have to > be realistic and say that I cannot do it alone, so if other volunteers are > not found, I'm afraid our participation in GSoC it is going to an end this > year. > > Please, feel free to circulate this call to your connections, former > mentors or former GSoC students, Geo-For-All fellows, etc.. We need your > help! > > Thanks! > Regards, > > > [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ > > > -- > Margherita Di Leo > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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