Google Summer of Code Application 2012 - Revision history

Aghisla: /* Application Deadline */

2012-03-09T21:13:31Z

Application Deadline

Aghisla: /* Backup Admin (Link ID) */

2012-03-09T20:43:11Z

Backup Admin (Link ID)

Aghisla: /* 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 */

2012-03-09T20:42:32Z

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

Aghisla: /* 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 */

2012-03-09T13:44:11Z

Wiki-Dadkins: /* Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2012? What do you hope to gain by participating? */

2012-03-05T13:36:11Z

Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2012? What do you hope to gain by participating?

Aghisla: /* Backup Admin (Link ID) */

2012-03-02T10:56:00Z

Backup Admin (Link ID)

Aghisla: /* 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 */

2012-03-02T10:18:40Z

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

2012-03-02T10:09:42Z

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

Aghisla: /* If your organization participated in past GSoCs, please let us know the ratio of students passing to students allocated */

2012-03-02T10:06:41Z

If your organization participated in past GSoCs, please let us know the ratio of students passing to students allocated

Aghisla: /* Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. */

2012-03-02T09:58:42Z

Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.

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 == Application Deadline ==
-Status: ''Not yet applied''
+Status: ''Applied''
 : http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#timeline
 * Friday, '''March 9''': 16:00 PST (23:00 UTC)
 : Mentoring organization application deadline.
 == Old ==

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 Backup administrators:
-  * Wolf Bergenheim (melange: ?)
+  * Wolf Bergenheim (melange: wolf)
   * Hamish Bowman (melange: hamish)

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 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 decided to vouch for PLOTS (http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/gsoc-2012), that aims to build open source tools for environmental monitoring by underserved communities. The GIS component of many of the SoC proposals and the empowerment of end users by open source development are common traits between our organisations.
+This year we decided to vouch for PLOTS (http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/gsoc-2012), that aims to build open source tools for environmental monitoring by underserved communities. The GIS component of many of the SoC proposals and the empowerment of end users by open source development are common traits between our organisations. We hope that they will be accepted to GSoC and we wish to establish productive collaboration in the future.
 This year we are vouching again for Neo4j graph database. Neo4j worked with us in 2010 and 2011 as one of the many projects under the OSGeo Umbrella. This year they have chosen to go on for themselves and we OSGeo vouch for them as an organisation.

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 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 again for Neo4j graph database. Neo4j worked with us in 2010 and 2011 as one of the many projects under the OSGeo Umbrella. This year they have chosen to go on for themselves and we OSGeo vouch for them as an organization.
+This year we decided to vouch for PLOTS (http://publiclaboratory.org/wiki/gsoc-2012), that aims to build open source tools for environmental monitoring by underserved communities. The GIS component of many of the SoC proposals and the empowerment of end users by open source development are common traits between our organisations.
-As in 2011, there is also the Opticks project, but they are participating under the OSGeo umbrella, since they are progressing in the OSGeo incubation process.
+This year we are vouching again for Neo4j graph database. Neo4j worked with us in 2010 and 2011 as one of the many projects under the OSGeo Umbrella. This year they have chosen to go on for themselves and we OSGeo vouch for them as an organisation.
-So I guess what we're saying is that we have already been performing this role for some time.
+As in 2011, there is also the Opticks project, but they are participating under the OSGeo umbrella, since they have started the OSGeo incubation process.
 === Anything else you'd like to tell us? ===

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 We hope to get more students excited about open source geospatial development. This will help to grow the development community and of course tangibly advance particular projects. Additionally by way of the level of exposure that SoC provides we aim to further extend the use, development, and teaching & training of open source GIS at universities worldwide. This will help to prepare a new generation of developers for industry and government agencies capable of introducing and implementing viable open source geospatial technology, to the benefit of all.
-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.
+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 GSoC 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 like-minded FOSS projects in our app domain. (such as OSM, Mapnik, Sahana, Ushahidi, ...)

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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.
+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.
 === What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? ===

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 * GeoKettle - non-member OSGeo
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 c thoughts: So we could do better helping our "outsider" projects in? Or perhaps projects already accepted into OSGeo have a long history and established already-integrated teams, thus correlation with success in an OSGeo-led endeavour is not entirely surprising. (aka we can twist our friends arms with greater force than we can our guests).''
 app comment: "''As the numbers indicate each year we have received better and better applications, and thus have had a better success ratio. Also we have learned to mentor better, and to spot the good applications.''"

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 === Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. ===
-OSgeo participated in 2010, and in many ways it was a tough year, but we like to think that we managed to come out victorious. It was challenging because our slot count was cut to about half of what we have had the previous year, while still having the same number, if not more projects participate under our umbrella. We also had some surprising student dropouts (one who is still MIA, as far as we know), maybe the aliens targeted OSGeo, because of our knowledge of the earth? ;) But despite these challenges we managed to put out some great projects and were in general very happy with the year.
+OSGeo participated in 2011, with a very good success rate. Many of the students continued to work with their OSGeo projects after the end of summer, and even become official contributors. The mentoring has been overall effective, and the communication among students, mentors and admins has been constant. Still, getting in contact with elusive participants represented the main difficulty, and has been addressed case to case.
 OSGeo sent 2 delegates to the Mentor summit who participated in many geospatial sessions and also chaired one session. We made new friends among the FLOSS geo-related projects and re-connected with old friends.