Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC 2017!

2017-02-28 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Margherita, Thanks for this great news and all you efforts. I hope to see great GSoC proposals this year too! Best Venka On 2/28/2017 5:33 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: Dear OSGeo community, We are proud to announce that OSGeo has been selected as a mentor organization for the 2017

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC 2017!

2017-02-28 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Hi All, just FYI: we figured out that mentors do not need to register on the platform, but we have to invite them. So mentors, please let us know the email that you will be using (I think it must be a google account). Regards On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Margherita Di Leo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC 2017!

2017-02-28 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Hello Tom! Thank you for mentoring this year! Remember that we need two mentors for each idea and one can be a primary mentor only for one idea.. Regarding the google platform: on top right there is a "log in" button, you should use your gmail account. At a certain stage, I or the other admins

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC 2017!

2017-02-28 Thread Tom Kralidis
Hi Margherita: thanks for the update -- this is great news! Given pycsw is part of this year's OSGeo offering I'd like to sign up as a mentor. I've done so at [1], however I cannot see how to register as a mentor on [2]. Is there a specific area I should be looking at/for? Cheers ..Tom [1]

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is accepted as a mentor organization for GSoC 2017!

2017-02-28 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Dear OSGeo community, We are proud to announce that OSGeo has been selected as a mentor organization for the 2017 edition of GSoC! See all selected orgs here [1]. >From now *until March 20*, potential student participants are invited to discuss application ideas with mentoring

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [GeoForAll-Africa] Lagos Mapping Party 2017

2017-02-28 Thread Suchith Anand
Ayo, Thank you for sharing the updates and great to see the community build up . Great to see the community links of OSM and OSGeo expanding rapidly both locally and globally. OSM is now truly the Global Mapping Agency and OSGeo is the world's largest geospatial ecosystem. What a great