I am going to try and help Frank get our ideas list for Google’s
2007 Summer of Code wrapped up by the end of the week. I know that the
participating projects have already done a lot of this work here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code
However, I was hoping I could request some assistance from the
participating projects so that I can get a finalized list put together. I’d
like to ask if each of the participating projects could e-mail me a text file
with the following information for each student project idea:
[1] The name of the Student Project Idea.
[2] The mentor that will be assigned to the project if it is accepted
by Google. I think we want something definite here. Not “possible mentor”
or “suggested mentor”. I think the projects need to get this nailed
down.
[3] A brief, one or two paragraph, description of the Student Project Idea.
It is important to remember that the students reviewing these idea lists may
not be GIS or programming experts, or experts on your particular software, so
be careful about your use of technical terms and jargon. Please also do not
send a link to another web page that contains the description of the student
project idea. I’d like to have this information self-contained in the
text file. You can include links to technical specifications or other
information that applies to the Student Project Idea and that the student may
find helpful in considering the project.
[4] The contact information for a person the student can talk to for
more information about a Student Project Idea.
One of the reasons we’d like to do this is to encourage
participating projects to really look at their own Student Project Ideas list so
they can tie up any loose ends. We really appreciate each of the participating
projects taking the time to do this.
I will review each submitted lists to check for things like spelling
and grammar errors, broken hyperlinks, and for things that just don’t
make sense. I’ll try to approach this review from the perspective of a
student, and will direct the questions about the Student Project Idea
description to the appropriate participating project. We prefer to have a short
list of well-thought out Student Project Ideas with few errors, rather than a
long list of confusing or unclear Student Project Ideas with lots of mistakes
and errors.
Thanks,
Landon (A.K.A. – The Sunburned Surveyor)
