Dear all, for the first time this year, we will apply for hosting our own "semantic" Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects. In past years, our projects were done through the Wikimedia Foundation, leading to such successful projects as Semantic Maps and RDFIO.
We will soon (Mar 11) submit our application to Google, and we need your support to make it maximally successful. We need: * Mentors * Project ideas * (Students, but we will call for them again in due course) We have prepared a wiki page at [1]. We are in good shape but could still use some more input. The task of the mentor is to guide and support GSoC students in executing a project. A rewarding experience: you get the chance of guiding bright and motivated students at realizing a project you care about, plus the chance to get an invitation to Google and (presumably) a free T-shirt. A good mentor understands the relevant technology, but his or her main task is to guide the student to arrive at the best possible project result. Feel free to add your name in the list of mentors on [1] if you would generally be interested in mentoring projects around SMW. If you have a worked-out project idea, feel free to add it as well. Ideal projects have clear and useful goals, high chances of success, and support from available mentors. If you would like to propose an idea that is not quite at this stage yet, feel free to discuss it here. We can collect projects beyond our application on Mar 11, and students can also make their own proposals. GSoC is very competitive but also highly prestigious. Let's make sure that SMW and its extensions will make the most out of it! Cheers, Markus [1] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/GSoC_2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
