Google Summer of Code Application 2011 - Revision history

Wiki-Wolf: /* What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? */

2011-03-11T20:05:25Z

What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

Wiki-Wolf: /* What criteria did you use to select the individuals who will act as mentors for your organization? Please be as specific as possible. */

2011-03-11T20:04:45Z

What criteria did you use to select the individuals who will act as mentors for your organization? Please be as specific as possible.

Wiki-Wolf: Protected "Google Summer of Code Application 2011": Freezing page to match final submission ([edit=sysop] (indefinite))

2011-03-11T19:58:18Z

Protected "Google Summer of Code Application 2011": Freezing page to match final submission ([edit=sysop] (indefinite))

Wiki-HamishBowman: /* If you are a large organization who is vouching for a small organization applying to GSoC for their first time this year, please list their name and why you think they'd be good candidates for GSoC

2011-03-11T12:51:48Z

/* If you are a large organization who is vouching for a small organization applying to GSoC for their first time this year, please list their name and why you think they'd be good candidates for GSoC

Wiki-HamishBowman: /* What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? */

2011-03-11T12:50:33Z

What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?

Wiki-HamishBowman: /* Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2011? What do you hope to gain by participating? */

2011-03-11T12:48:58Z

Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2011? What do you hope to gain by participating?

Aghisla: /* Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? */ fixed formatting

2011-03-11T10:25:37Z

Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use?: fixed formatting

Aghisla: /* Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? */ shuffle questions according to Melange application

2011-03-11T10:16:24Z

Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use?: shuffle questions according to Melange application

Wiki-Wolf: /* Application Deadline */

2011-03-10T22:15:59Z

Application Deadline

Wiki-Wolf: /* Anything else you'd like to tell us? */

2011-03-10T21:50:18Z

Anything else you'd like to tell us?

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 === What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? ===
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 In order to minimize the chance of disappearing students we will ensure that the OSGeo administrative contact and the mentors have full contact information (email, home phone, etc) so that we can keep in touch with them at all times. We also stress to our students that this is a Job, as opposed to a school project.

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 === What criteria did you use to select the individuals who will act as mentors for your organization? Please be as specific as possible. ===
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 The project administrator is appointed by the OSGeo board at the beginning of the year. The project administrator asks for one or two people he trusts to be the backup administrators. Mentors are selected by project steering committees and development teams based on their reputation as skilled developers, domain experience, previously demonstrated ability to support new project developers, and stated willingness to devote time to the mentoring process. We also try very hard to match up the student working on a specific module or tool with a developer with the best expertise in the relevant area. We have in the past not voted up an otherwise good student project if there was no mentor capable of overseeing the project from a technical standpoint. Fortunately we have had a strong response from the developer pool so this has not been a major problem.

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 === If you are a large organization who is vouching for a small organization applying to GSoC for their first time this year, please list their name and why you think they'd be good candidates for GSoC here ===
-As an umbrella organization we are fundamentally a conglomerate of small(er) organizations and so are well experienced in helping smaller mentoring teams. We have been happy to mentor-mentor small orgs in the past when they've approached us, each year taking in a few in-the-same-field projects who were not technically members of our Foundation but who'd otherwise would have missed out.
+As an umbrella organization we are fundamentally a conglomerate of small(er) organizations and so are well experienced in helping smaller mentoring teams. We have been happy to mentor-mentor small orgs in the past when they've approached us, each year taking in a few in-the-same-field projects who were not technically members of our Foundation but who otherwise would have missed out.
 This year we are vouching for Neo4j graph database. Neo4j worked with us last year as one of the many projects under the OSGeo Umbrella. This year they have chosen to go on for them selves and we OSGeo vouch for them as an organization.
-This year there is also the Opticks project, but they are participating under the OSGeo umbrealla, since they have started the OSGeo incubation process.
+This year there is also the Opticks project, but they are participating under the OSGeo umbrella, since they have started the OSGeo incubation process.
 So I guess what we're saying is that we have already been performing this role for some time.

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-Project steering committees will appoint replacement mentors if existing mentors become unavailable or unresponsive during the project period. We also plan to have backup mentors for projects so the backup mentor can fill in for, or replace the primary mentor in case of changing circumstances. Our administrators take an active role communicating with students and mentors, and so will be able to help out early if there is a problem somewhere.
+Project steering committees will appoint replacement mentors if existing mentors become unavailable or unresponsive during the project period. We also plan to have backup mentors for all projects so the backup mentor can fill in for, or replace the primary mentor in case of changing circumstances. Our administrators take an active role communicating with students and mentors, and so will be able to help out early if there is a problem somewhere.
 Among all the OSGeo mailing lists there are 14,000 subscribers, indicating a good pool of people to draw from if required. Due to relatively high member project code and personnel cross-over, in a pinch a mentor from another OSGeo project could usefully help out. Additionally this year we plan on communicating with mentors even more closely thus if something happens with the mentor it should not come as a surprise and additionally there is a backup mentor to continue the mentoring.

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 Last but not least we hope to use this opportunity to bring more open source geospatial projects closer and to communicate more. We are encouraging students to come up with ideas that cross project boundaries, and to find new ways to connect the separate efforts in order to bring out new and perhaps improved wholes. In 2008 we also saw the birth of a new project, Spatialytics, which is a novel combination of several geospatial technologies. This is, as stated above, one of our goals, which SGoC helps us achieve in a way which cannot be matched in any other regular effort.
-Additionally it has been a great opportunity to mingle code with and get to know other likeminded FOSS projects in our app domain. (such as OSM, Mapnik, Sahana, Ushahidi, ...)
+Additionally it has been a great opportunity to mingle code with and get to know other like-minded FOSS projects in our app domain. (such as OSM, Mapnik, Sahana, Ushahidi, ...)
 === If accepted, would this be your first year participating in GSoC? ===

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   Please provide details of general computing experience:
    (operating systems you use on a day-to-day basis, languages you could write a program in, hardware, networking experience, etc.)
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   Please provide details of previous GIS experience:

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   Explain how your SoC task would benefit the OSGeo member project and more generally the OSGeo Foundation as a whole:
   Please provide details of previous GIS experience:
   Please provide details of any previous involvement with GIS programming and other software programming:
-  Please provide details of general computing experience:
+  Please tell us why you are interested in GIS and open source software:
-  Please tell us why you are interested in GIS and open source software:
+  Please tell us why you are interested in working for OSGeo and the software project you have selected:
   Please tell us why you are interested in your specific coding project:
   Would your application contribute to your ongoing studies/degree? If so, how?

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 : http://www.google-melange.com
 == Application Deadline ==
 : http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline

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 === Anything else you'd like to tell us? ===
- GSoC is a very important project for OSGeo. We are investing more and more to it
+GSoC is a very important project for OSGeo. We are investing more and more to it every year. This year we have a second full-time administrator in order to improve on the quality of mentoring the mentors. For OSGeo GSoC is not only a means to increase the size of the community, but also an important event to grow awareness of our project in academia, and other open source communities.
 === Backup Admin (Link ID) ===