Thanks Karl. I realize we don't have much time before the deadline this
Friday, Feb. 14th!
I'll just reiterate a couple of ideas that we have discussed in the
past.
1. Development of a data-collection app (to collect heritage inventory
data in the field) that would sync with Arches;
2. Leveraging the fact that Gephi is a GSoC project, development of a
tool that would allow seamless updates and creation of Arches graphs.
Dennis et al would be best to provide the technical details.
Alison
Karl Fogel kfo...@opentechstrategies.com 02/10/14 1:49 PM
Dennis, per our conversation earlier today:
I've made some progress in our online application, and it turns out they
do indeed want the ideas list at this stage -- that is, the ideas for
what students could do this summer with Arches.
Google gives a good description of this at
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page#3._What_is_an_Ideas_list
.
I'll paste it here for convenience:
| An Ideas list should be a list of suggested student projects. This
| list is meant to introduce contributors to your project's needs and
| to provide inspiration to would-be student applicants. It is useful
| to classify each idea as specifically as possible, e.g. must know
| Python or easier project; good for a student with more limited
| experience with C++. If your organization plans to provide a
| proposal template for the students, it would be good to include it
| on your Ideas list.
|
| Keep in mind that your ideas list should be a starting point for
| student proposals; we've heard from past mentoring organization
| participants that some of their best student projects are those that
| greatly expanded on a proposed idea or were blue-sky proposals not
| mentioned on the ideas list at all. At a minimum, all the ideas on
| your Ideas List should include the expected outcome of the project,
| a potential mentor, the skills and/or languages required to complete
| the project, and a general difficulty level. A link to a bug
| tracker for your open source organization is NOT an ideas list.
| Placeholder or inaccessible ideas pages will be grounds for an
| automatic rejection for participation in Google Summer of Code 2014.
|
| You can check out the Ideas list for KDE
| (http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas) for Google Summer of Code
| in 2011 to get an idea of what we’re looking for in an ideas list.
I assume that Farallon can come up with the ideas list over the next
couple of days. The best place to post it would be either at a URL like
http://archesproject.org/gsoc/2014 or (better yet) in a wiki page in
BitBucket where students could potentially edit or propose other ideas.
Either way, the Ideas List page should include a link to this discussion
group. It is typical for student applicants to ask questions on the
project's mailing list while they're considering applying.
A couple of other bits of administrivia:
1) We'll need at least one more person besides me to create an
organization member account -- should be someone from Farallon, I
think. Create that account at Begin Registration here:
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
...then please tell me the username created (e.g., I'm kfogel), so
I can name that person as the Backup Administrator in the
organizational application form (which is a whole separate thing from
the individual org member form).
2) I'm registerign an IRC channel on the Freenode.net network, #arches,
so there's a place for real-time communications between students and
mentors. (The application asks about this, and it's a good idea.)
That's all for now; will follow up here as I come across other things.
Best,
-Karl
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