Google Summer of Code Application 2014 - Revision history

Madi at 08:59, 12 February 2015

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Wiki-HamishBowman: /* If you chose "veteran" in the dropdown above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year. */

2014-02-14T10:21:38Z

If you chose "veteran" in the dropdown above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year.

Wiki-HamishBowman: /* If you chose "veteran" in the dropdown above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year. */

2014-02-14T10:19:05Z

If you chose "veteran" in the dropdown above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year.

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2014-02-14T10:11:11Z

If you chose "veteran" in the dropdown above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year.

Wiki-HamishBowman: /* How many potential mentors do you have for this year's program? What criteria did you use to select them? */

2014-02-14T09:22:14Z

How many potential mentors do you have for this year's program? What criteria did you use to select them?

Wiki-HamishBowman: /* Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2014? What do you hope to gain by participating? */

2014-02-14T09:22:01Z

Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2014? What do you hope to gain by participating?

Wiki-HamishBowman: 2014

2014-02-14T07:13:33Z

2014

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2014-02-14T06:59:34Z

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Wiki-HamishBowman: /* If you chose "veteran" in the dropdown above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year. */

2014-02-14T06:57:12Z

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2014-02-14T06:41:20Z

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 Successes: All in all our students were great and a lot of good work was completed -- perhaps the least remarkable-sounding but most important success we had is how smoothly everything ran in spite of handling our largest number of students yet. Many of our former students continue to be involved in our contributing projects' development and take on roles as mentors. A couple of the smaller external projects we had taken under our GSoC umbrella in the past are now participating in our incubation process to become full members of our Foundation.
-Challenges: Getting everyone to fill in their evaluations on time is always a challenge, but we're pleased to report that in 2013 we didn't have to resort to 3 AM phone calls to the other side of the world as everyone got theirs in on time, no small effort for an umbrella org! Unfortunately we had to fail one student at midterm, we took him on as a risk and had high hopes, but a combination of personality mismatch with his mentor, backup mentor and org admins not picking up on that early enough, and not a strong enough coding background lead to many diversions from the established timeline and only a few lines of useful code once the boilerplate commits were removed. This was especially disappointing as he was a friendly student who was quite enthusiastic about the program. We considered salvage with re-made timeline and goals and better mentoring support, but in the end despite promises there was no last minute code commit, and we had to judge on what little code we had in hand. All our students who passed midterm also continued on to pass the final.
+Challenges: Getting everyone to fill in their evaluations on time is always a challenge, but we're pleased to report that in 2013 we didn't have to resort to 3 AM phone calls to the other side of the world as everyone got theirs in on time, no small effort for an umbrella org! Unfortunately we had to fail one student at midterm, we took him on as a risk and had high hopes, but a combination of personality mismatch with his mentor, backup mentor and org admins not picking up on that early enough, and not a strong enough coding background lead to many diversions from the established timeline and only a few lines of useful code once the boilerplate commits were removed. This was especially disappointing as he was a friendly student who was quite enthusiastic about the program. We considered salvage with re-made timeline and goals and additional mentoring support, but in the end despite promises there was no last minute code commit, and we had to judge on what little code we had in hand. All our students who passed midterm also continued on to pass the final.
 In 2012 former GSoC student and mentor Anne G. smoothly transitioned into the role of lead admin from Wolf B., with Wolf and another long-serving co-admin standing by with advice. Since our umbrella is wide, we brought in an additional co-admin for better communication with mentors and projects that the other admins didn't know as well. Anne is a great communicator and has settled in well. (n.b. that wasn't written by her ;-)

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	OSGeo participated in GSoC in 2007. Six OSGeo projects participated and were generally very successful. OSGeo also sent one delegate to the Mentor Summit in 2007. See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SoC_Report_2007 for a full report. We also opened up a demo theatre track highlighting SoC work at our FOSS4G conference that year.		OSGeo participated in GSoC in 2007. Six OSGeo projects participated and were generally very successful. OSGeo also sent one delegate to the Mentor Summit in 2007. See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SoC_Report_2007 for a full report. We also opened up a demo theatre track highlighting SoC work at our FOSS4G conference that year.

−	OSGeo was formed in early 2006 and did not participate in GSoC prior to 2007. However, Refractions Research did participate in 2006 on behalf of the GeoTools, uDig, and PostGIS projects which now participate through OSGeo. Even after all this time most of the the previously participating mentors and administrators continue to be involved in this ~~years~~ OSGeo GSoC effort.	+	OSGeo was formed in early 2006 and did not participate in GSoC prior to 2007. However, Refractions Research did participate in 2006 on behalf of the GeoTools, uDig, and PostGIS projects which now participate through OSGeo. Even after all this time most of the the previously participating mentors and administrators continue to be involved in this year's OSGeo GSoC effort.

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+OSGeo participated in 2013, with 21 of 22 students successfully completing their projects. It was a great year for the variety of software projects which took part under the OSGeo umbrella. We were glad that a bunch of small, newly formed geospatial projects joined our GSoC as guests and established links with the established OSGeo network, as well as to have more established projects like OpenStreetMap join us. We sent two delegates to the mentors' summit, who lead sessions on managing GSoC umbrella orgs and FOSS mapping.
 GSoC 2013 final report: http://www.osgeo.org/node/1410
-OSGeo participated in 2012, with 20 of 22 students completing the summer.
+In 2012, 20 of 22 students completing the summer. We provided GSoC-specific umbrella support for two smaller projects from outside of our Foundation.
-Successes: All in all our students were great and a lot of good work was completed -- perhaps the least remarkable-sounding but most important success we had is how smoothly everything ran in spite of handling our largest number of students yet.
+Successes: All in all our students were great and a lot of good work was completed -- perhaps the least remarkable-sounding but most important success we had is how smoothly everything ran in spite of handling our largest number of students yet. Many of our former students continue to be involved in our contributing projects' development and take on roles as mentors. A couple of the smaller external projects we had taken under our GSoC umbrella in the past are now participating in our incubation process to become full members of our Foundation.
-Challenges: We require all projects have a backup mentor, and unfortunately had to make use of that this year. We had the fatal combination of a struggling-to-get-started student and a mentor who lost interest. In hindsight we felt that the mentor should have abandoned the project at mid-term and that we as admins should not have let the mentor over-extend himself, but even after the student lifted his game in the second half of the summer with a new direction, we (the admins) made the hard call to fail him on the final, to be paid half a summer's wages for half a summer's work. As a result, our slushy rules of one one-project per primary mentor and requiring detailed weekly status reports from students are now firmer, and we're more acutely aware of the need of earlier hands-on intervention by the admins.
+Challenges: Getting everyone to fill in their evaluations on time is always a challenge, but we're pleased to report that in 2013 we didn't have to resort to 3 AM phone calls to the other side of the world as everyone got theirs in on time, no small effort for an umbrella org! Unfortunately we had to fail one student at midterm, we took him on as a risk and had high hopes, but a combination of personality mismatch with his mentor, backup mentor and org admins not picking up on that early enough, and not a strong enough coding background lead to many diversions from the established timeline and only a few lines of useful code once the boilerplate commits were removed. This was especially disappointing as he was a friendly student who was quite enthusiastic about the program. We considered salvage with re-made timeline and goals and better mentoring support, but in the end despite promises there was no last minute code commit, and we had to judge on what little code we had in hand. All our students who passed midterm also continued on to pass the final.
-Former GSoC student and mentor Anne G. smoothly transitioned into the role of lead admin from Wolf B., with Wolf and another long-serving co-admin standing by with advice. Since our umbrella is wide, we brought in an additional co-admin for better communication with mentors and projects that the other admins didn't know as well. Anne is a great communicator and has settled in well. (n.b. that wasn't written by her ;-)
+In 2012 former GSoC student and mentor Anne G. smoothly transitioned into the role of lead admin from Wolf B., with Wolf and another long-serving co-admin standing by with advice. Since our umbrella is wide, we brought in an additional co-admin for better communication with mentors and projects that the other admins didn't know as well. Anne is a great communicator and has settled in well. (n.b. that wasn't written by her ;-)
-OSGeo sent two delegates to the 2012 Mentor Summit, who chaired summit sessions on umbrella org admin'ing, geospatial FOSS, and humanitarian FOSS. We spent a lot of time comparing notes and ideas with other umbrella orgs and participating in Open Science sessions. We were lucky that our Foundation's long-serving <!-- "then"? --> president is now a Googler and could meet up with us on the side.
+OSGeo sent two delegates to the 2012 Mentor Summit, who chaired summit sessions on umbrella org admin'ing, geospatial FOSS, and humanitarian FOSS. We spent a lot of time comparing notes and ideas with other umbrella orgs and participating in Open Science sessions.
-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 2011 Mentor Summit, and benefited of the presence of 2 more, who were already in Mountain View. As previous year, the delegates chaired a Geospatial session, and improved connections with many other projects.
+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 2011 Mentor Summit, and benefited of the presence of 2 more, who were already in Mountain View. As in the previous year, the delegates chaired a Geospatial session, and improved connections with many other projects.
 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 sent 2 delegates to the 2010 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.
-OSGeo participated in GSoC in 2009. Twelve OSGeo member projects participated and were very successful. The applications were of better quality so we had fewer dropouts than the previous year. We also had further cross-project co-operation projects, which went very well indeed. OSGeo Sent two delegates to the Mentor Summit.
+OSGeo also participated in GSoC in 2009. Twelve OSGeo member projects participated and were very successful. The applications were of better quality so we had fewer dropouts than the previous year. We also had further cross-project co-operation projects, which went very well indeed. OSGeo Sent two delegates to the Mentor Summit.
 OSGeo participated in GSoC in 2008. Eleven OSGeo member projects participated and were in general very successful. OSGeo didn't send delegates to the Mentor Summit due to the busy schedules of the mentors.
-See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SoC_Report_2008 for a full report.
+OSGeo participated in GSoC in 2007. Six OSGeo projects participated and were generally very successful. OSGeo also sent one delegate to the Mentor Summit in 2007. See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SoC_Report_2007 for a full report. We also opened up a demo theatre track highlighting SoC work at our FOSS4G conference that year.
-OSGeo participated in GSoC in 2007. Six OSGeo projects participated and were generally very successful. OSGeo also sent one delegate to the Mentor Summit in 2007. See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SoC_Report_2007 for a full report. We also opened up a demo theatre track highlighting SoC work at our foss4g conference that year.
+OSGeo was formed in early 2006 and did not participate in GSoC prior to 2007. However, Refractions Research did participate in 2006 on behalf of the GeoTools, uDig, and PostGIS projects which now participate through OSGeo. Even after all this time most of the the previously participating mentors and administrators continue to be involved in this years OSGeo GSoC effort.
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 app comment: ''the breakdown of the failures is interesting-
 Were failures all from first-time-SOC / outside-of-osgeo projects?

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-We have so far responses from potentially 10 to 25 mentors across OSGeo projects. Each OSGeo project chooses their mentors (two per student) according to past mentoring experience, involvement in core development, specific knowledge for the idea they wish to mentor. More people will show up as the ideas pages will grow. Last year we had approximately 50, and as GSoC is popular with our member projects we'd expect about the same level of interest again.
+We have so far responses from potentially 15 to 30 mentors across OSGeo projects. Each OSGeo project chooses their mentors (two per student) according to past mentoring experience, involvement in core development, specific knowledge for the idea they wish to mentor. More people will show up as the ideas pages will grow. Last year we had approximately 50, and as GSoC is popular with our member projects we'd expect about the same level of interest again.
 This year we have called on our newly formed ICA-OSGeo Labs network to participate to OSGeo GSoC. Together with the International Cartographic Association this network connects labs at 65 educational institutions around the world who primarily use OSGeo and open source software in general. These labs are spreading the word amongst their students and we look forward to see professors and lecturers take part as mentors.

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 projects.
-We also 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 fundamentally improved wholes. After a previous SoC we 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.
+We also hope to use this opportunity to bring 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 fundamentally improved wholes. After a previous SoC we 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.
 Last but not least 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 OpenStreetMap, Mapnik, Sahana, Ushahidi, ...)

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	OSGeo participated in 2013, with 21 of 22 students successfully completing their project. It was a great year for the variety of software projects which took part under the OSGeo umbrella. We were glad that a bunch of small, newly formed geospatial projects joined our GSoC as guests and established links with the established OSGeo network, as well as to have more established projects like OpenStreetMap join us. We sent two delegates to the mentors' summit, who lead sessions on managing GSoC umbrella orgs and FOSS mapping.		OSGeo participated in 2013, with 21 of 22 students successfully completing their project. It was a great year for the variety of software projects which took part under the OSGeo umbrella. We were glad that a bunch of small, newly formed geospatial projects joined our GSoC as guests and established links with the established OSGeo network, as well as to have more established projects like OpenStreetMap join us. We sent two delegates to the mentors' summit, who lead sessions on managing GSoC umbrella orgs and FOSS mapping.
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		+	GSoC 2013 final report: http://www.osgeo.org/node/1410

	OSGeo participated in 2012, with 20 of 22 students completing the summer.		OSGeo participated in 2012, with 20 of 22 students completing the summer.

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−	OSGeo participated in 2013, with 21 of 22 students successfully completing their project. It was a great year for the variety of software projects which took part under the OSGeo umbrella. We were glad that a bunch of small, newly formed geospatial projects joined our GSoC as guests and established links with the established OSGeo network, as well as to have more established projects like OpenStreetMap join us.	+	OSGeo participated in 2013, with 21 of 22 students successfully completing their project. It was a great year for the variety of software projects which took part under the OSGeo umbrella. We were glad that a bunch of small, newly formed geospatial projects joined our GSoC as guests and established links with the established OSGeo network, as well as to have more established projects like OpenStreetMap join us. We sent two delegates to the mentors' summit, who lead sessions on managing GSoC umbrella orgs and FOSS mapping.

	OSGeo participated in 2012, with 20 of 22 students completing the summer.		OSGeo participated in 2012, with 20 of 22 students completing the summer.

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−	OSGeo participated in 2013, with 21 of 22 students successfully completing their project. It was a great year for the variety of software projects which took part under the OSGeo umbrella. We were glad that a bunch of small, newly formed geospatial projects joined our GSoC as guests and established links with the established OSGeo network.	+	OSGeo participated in 2013, with 21 of 22 students successfully completing their project. It was a great year for the variety of software projects which took part under the OSGeo umbrella. We were glad that a bunch of small, newly formed geospatial projects joined our GSoC as guests and established links with the established OSGeo network, as well as to have more established projects like OpenStreetMap join us.

	OSGeo participated in 2012, with 20 of 22 students completing the summer.		OSGeo participated in 2012, with 20 of 22 students completing the summer.