Hi In the event nobody else has volunteered, I am happy to act as liason. Can you give me the 2 minute guide on what I need to do Barry?
Regards Tim > On 10 Apr 2017, at 11:37 AM, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> > wrote: > > Margherita Di Leo just sent out a reminder on the osgeo-gsoc-mentors > list that reviews need doing by tomorrow or the projects automatically > fail. > > Alex appears to have gone very quiet - are you there? Can you do the > GSoC reviews? Do you need help? Can someone else do them? I'd do it > but as a proposed mentor I might be somewhat biased... > > I think it might look bad if QGIS fails to engage with the OSgeo GSoC process. > > Barry > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Rowlingson, Barry > <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: >> Quick summary for anyone interested: >> >> There's five projects: >> >> * My remote-control API project which has a strong student and two >> signed-up mentors, me as main mentor. >> >> * A QGIS-PySAL (spatial analysis library) integration project which >> also looks like a good student. I'll co-mentor that but it needs a >> main mentor to do most of the work with the student. >> >> * Two projects that seem to be about improving vector geoprocessing >> algorithms, which I would have thought were libGEOS's business, but >> the students don't mention libGEOS which worries me. No mentors >> signed up. >> >> * A project on raster uncertainty visualisation that is working on >> improving and extending the students' existing plugin. No mentors >> signed up. >> >> Barry >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Werner Macho <werner.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thanks for bringing this up Barry! >>> It really seems that QGIS has got enough proposals to work on, but we >>> are in heavy need of mentors. >>> >>> It might be the students "fault" to just expect that "somebody" will >>> take mentorship anyway while in reality they should actively _search >>> and ask_ for mentors. >>> >>> I still hope QGIS will make it and can only say I hope that there will >>> be some developers willing to take mentorship. >>> >>> There is still a week left to take brief look at the proposals. >>> >>> We could do something like an internal ranking and survey about the >>> proposals but still - we have to few mentors. >>> >>> So please any developers willing step up and give new developers a >>> chance to get deeper into QGIS. >>> >>> As a member of the QGIS community and currently helping osgeo-gsoc >>> admin team I would really like to see QGIS in the GsoC projects. >>> >>> regards >>> Werner >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Barry Rowlingson >>> <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: >>>> Who is the liaison officer for QGIS' GSoC proposals? There was an >>>> email from Margherita Di Leo on the OSGeo-GSoC list about the liaison >>>> officer having to review submitted proposals, but I didn't see anyone >>>> claiming to be the QGIS liaison officer. >>>> >>>> There are currently five QGIS proposals in the system, and only one of >>>> them has any mentors signed up at the moment. Projects without two >>>> mentors will automatically fail on April 11th. >>>> >>>> I think all projects will fail on April 11th if a QGIS Liaison Officer >>>> hasn't reviewed the proposals. >>>> >>>> Sorry if the qgis-dev list isn't the right place to ask this, I >>>> imagined the Liaison Officer would be someone on the developer team. >>>> >>>> Barry >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Qgis-developer mailing list >>>> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >>>> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer — Tim Sutton Co-founder: Kartoza Project chair: QGIS.org Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source: Desktop GIS programming services Geospatial web development GIS Training Consulting Services Skype: timlinux IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial
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