On Apr 7, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Bryan Ling wrote:
> In http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/GettingStarted, where would my file be in this 
> command? I don't believe I have the file installed, where could I get it?
> lyr.datasource = 
> mapnik.Shapefile(file='/Users/path/to/your/data/world_borders')
Blink your eyes, and look one line above.
> I currently have OSGEO4W 0.7.0 installed on Windows 7. Would Linux be better? 
> Would 0.7.1 be preferable?
If you are just learning Mapnik usage that setup is fine. For development you 
should be on Linux/Mac and use trunk on hardware with at least 2 GB memory, 
ideally >= 4 GB.
> For proposal, is there any criteria on milestones that the mentor prefer I 
> set?

What do you mean exactly?

> I will continue the tutorials and playing with the program. 

Great.

> Thank you for your time. Hopefully looking forward to a summer of code with 
> Mapnik.
> 
> Regards,
> Bryan
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