Google Summer of Code Application 2018 - Revision history

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 GeoForAll (Education and Curriculum), OSGeo-Live DVD, Public Geospatial Data
-We host regional and international FOSS4G conferences with typical attendance of 500-1100+ geospatial developers, industry and government leaders, and researchers. Our mailing lists collectively go out to ~ 33,000 unique subscribers.
+We host regional and international FOSS4G conferences with typical attendance of 500-1100+ geospatial developers, industry and government leaders, and researchers. Our mailing lists collectively go out to ~ 30,000 unique subscribers.
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 * '''Proposal Tags''': New Feature,Optimization,Web Mapping,Desktop,Geospatial Libraries,Metadata Catalogue,Content Management,Incubating Project,Other Project
 * '''Chat Contact Method''': https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Recommendations_for_Students#How_to_get_in_contact_via_IRC
-* '''Mailing List''': http://www.osgeo.org/content/faq/mailing_lists.html#discuss
+* '''Mailing List''': https://www.osgeo.org/community/communications/
 * '''General email''': gsoc-admin(at)osgeo(dot)org
 * '''Google+ url''': https://plus.google.com/communities/105969056638310510633

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 GeoForAll (Education and Curriculum), OSGeo-Live DVD, Public Geospatial Data
-We host regional and international FOSS4G conferences with typical attendance of 500-1000+ geospatial developers, industry and government leaders, and researchers. Our mailing lists collectively go out to ~ 28,600 unique subscribers.
+We host regional and international FOSS4G conferences with typical attendance of 500-1100+ geospatial developers, industry and government leaders, and researchers. Our mailing lists collectively go out to ~ 33,000 unique subscribers.
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 * '''Website URL''': https://osgeo.org
 * '''Tagline''': The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
-* '''Logo''': compass+text, minimum height of 256px - use https://wiki.osgeo.org/images/7/74/OSGeo_logo_750_317.png
+* '''Logo''': compass+text, minimum height of 256px - use https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:Osgeo-logo.png
 * '''Primary Open Source License''': GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPL-2.0)
 * '''Organization Category''': Other

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 * '''Name''': OSGeo
-* '''Website URL''': http://osgeo.org
+* '''Website URL''': https://osgeo.org
 * '''Tagline''': The Open Source Geospatial Foundation
 * '''Logo''': compass+text, minimum height of 256px - use https://wiki.osgeo.org/images/7/74/OSGeo_logo_750_317.png

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 * '''Where does your source code live?''' OSGeo is an umbrella organization that entails several projects; each project has their own repository on various hosts, such as: GitHub https://github.com/OSGeo or OSGeo's hosted git https://git.osgeo.org or SVN https://svn.osgeo.org/
-* '''Anything else we should know?''' The OSGeo foundation is very appreciative of the GSoC program, to help giving students an introduction to the sharing, fun, and passion throughout Open Source communities.  We proudly talk about the GSoC program at our various FOSS4G events and international conferences each year all around the world. Furthermore, OSGeo participated for the first time in Google Code‑in 2017. It turned out to be a success to work with young students too. We believe the future leaders of the geospatial industry are these students.
+* '''Anything else we should know?''' The OSGeo foundation is very appreciative of the GSoC program, to help giving students an introduction to the sharing, fun, and passion throughout Open Source communities.  We proudly talk about the GSoC program at our various FOSS4G events and international conferences each year all around the world. Furthermore, OSGeo participated for the first time in Google Code‑in 2017. It turned out to be a success to work with young students too. We believe the future leaders of the geospatial industry are these students. And most of all: it's fun!
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 * '''What year was your project started?''' 2006
-* '''Where does your source code live?''' OSGeo is an umbrella organization that entails several projects. Each project has their own public repository either on GitHub or on OSGeo's hosted git/svn servers.
+* '''Where does your source code live?''' OSGeo is an umbrella organization that entails several projects; each project has their own repository on various hosts, such as: GitHub https://github.com/OSGeo or OSGeo's hosted git https://git.osgeo.org or SVN https://svn.osgeo.org/
 * '''Anything else we should know?''' The OSGeo foundation is very appreciative of the GSoC program, to help giving students an introduction to the sharing, fun, and passion throughout Open Source communities.  We proudly talk about the GSoC program at our various FOSS4G events and international conferences each year all around the world. Furthermore, OSGeo participated for the first time in Google Code‑in 2017. It turned out to be a success to work with young students too. We believe the future leaders of the geospatial industry are these students.

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 * '''Why does your org want to participate in Google Summer of Code?''': OSGeo is now a veteran GSoC organisation (2018 will be our 12th year participating), and we look forward to supporting new students in their summer projects. Past editions of GSoC brought in new great developers, as well as GSoC mentors (we have graduated 180 students in total through the GSoC program). Several small projects received a steady input of new code and gained in stability and visibility. OSGeo acting as umbrella organisation has also tightened the connection with guest software projects (Open Source projects involved with making maps, but are not yet officially part of OSGeo). We definitely look forward for another geospatial GSoC!
 * '''How many potential mentors have agreed to mentor this year?''' 11 - 15
-* '''How will you keep mentors engaged with their students?''': Normally our mentors have served in the role also in the past. However we require at least 2 mentors for each project. We welcome mentors who are regular (code) contributors and/or experts in their field, and are willing to guide students in every step of becoming open source geo developers. We keep personally in touch with each mentor to make sure communication with the student is effective. All this is summarized in an open accessible wiki page (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2018_Administrative).
+* '''How will you keep mentors engaged with their students?''': Normally most of our mentors have already served as mentors in past GSoC; however we require at least 2 mentors for each project for consistency. We welcome mentors who are regular (code) contributors and/or experts in their field, and are willing to guide students in every step of becoming open source geo developers. We keep personally in touch with each mentor to make sure communication with the student is effective. All this is summarized in an open accessible wiki page (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2018_Administrative).
 * '''How will you help your students stay on schedule to complete their projects?''': We invite them to get the clearest picture possible of their project at the beginning of GSoC, compiling a detailed timeline. To do that, they need to analyse the problem first, then split it into smaller tasks. Mentors are called to evaluate the projects based on the timeline provided. By means of weekly reports, we keep track of their progress, and let the students adjust the timeline estimating their weekly workload, with the help of their mentors. All this is summarized in an open accessible wiki page (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_Recommendations_for_Students).
 * '''How will you get your students involved in your community during GSoC?''': Each student is expected to discuss openly the proposal with the relevant software communities even before applying on GSoC website. We ask to send weekly reports to the appropriate developer lists and get feedback there. This year we would like mentors to test the students before selecting them, by proposing small non trivial programming tasks / bug fixes, in order to see if the student is confident enough with the software and the programming environment. We aim to foster closer communication by engaging our all students and community mentors through a accessible osgeo-gsoc channel. Through this we hope to expose students to collaborative problem solving, sharing experiences, encourage different perspectives within the open source geospatial community.

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 == Questionnaire ==
-* '''Why does your org want to participate in Google Summer of Code?''': OSGeo is now a veteran GSoC organisation (2018 will be our 12th year participating), and we look forward to supporting new students in their summer projects. Past editions of GSoC brought in new great developers, as well as GSoC mentors (we have graduated 180 students in total through the GSoC program). Several small projects got a steady input of new code and gained in stability and visibility. OSGeo acting as umbrella organisation tightened the connection with guest software projects. We definitely look forward for another geospatial GSoC!
+* '''Why does your org want to participate in Google Summer of Code?''': OSGeo is now a veteran GSoC organisation (2018 will be our 12th year participating), and we look forward to supporting new students in their summer projects. Past editions of GSoC brought in new great developers, as well as GSoC mentors (we have graduated 180 students in total through the GSoC program). Several small projects received a steady input of new code and gained in stability and visibility. OSGeo acting as umbrella organisation tightened the connection with guest software projects. We definitely look forward for another geospatial GSoC!
 * '''How many potential mentors have agreed to mentor this year?''' 11 - 15
 * '''How will you keep mentors engaged with their students?''': Normally our mentors have served in the role also in the past. However we require at least 2 mentors for each project. We welcome mentors who are regular (code) contributors and/or experts in their field, and are willing to guide students in every step of becoming open source geo developers. We keep personally in touch with each mentor to make sure communication with the student is effective. All this is summarized in an open accessible wiki page (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2018_Administrative).