Good to hear.

As for the “GRASS GIS locations created from public data” idea, I might be able 
to provide some shell scripts to start with and I guess many others have 
something similar too. A central question there would be likely licensing of 
the data which is not always clear I am afraid?!

Cheers
Stefan

From: grass-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 
[mailto:grass-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Markus Neteler
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Subject: [GRASS-dev] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo accepted to GSoC 2015 - 
overview of slot assignments

FYI

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From: Margherita Di Leo <direg...@gmail.com<mailto:direg...@gmail.com>>
Date: Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:41 AM
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo accepted to GSoC 2015 - overview of slot 
assignments
To: OSGeo Discussions 
<disc...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:disc...@lists.osgeo.org>>, OSGeo-SoC 
<s...@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:s...@lists.osgeo.org>>

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




--
Best regards,

Dr. Margherita DI LEO
Scientific / technical project officer

European Commission - DG JRC
Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
Via Fermi, 2749
I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261

Tel. +39 0332 78 3600
margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu<mailto:margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu>

Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in 
any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European 
Commission.

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