Background

Timeline

Full timeline
Oct 9 2017: Open source organizations can apply to be mentoring organizations (we should have mentors and tasks by then)
Nov 28 2017: Contest opens for entries by student participants
Jan 15 2018: Deadline for students to claim new tasks
Jan 17 2018: All student work must be submitted; contest ends
Jan 18 2018: Mentoring organizations complete all evaluations of students’ work
Jan 31 2018: Grand Prize Winners and Finalists announced
June (exact dates TBD): Grand Prize Winner’s Trip

Willing mentors must write to gsoc-admin(at)osgeo.org and will be sent a form to fill in.

2017-09-25 at 20.00 UTC
On IRC in the #osgeo-gsoc channel on irc.freenode.net (connect directly in your browser via webchat)
agenda:
- discuss ideas for tasks for the students
- plan to share mentor invites to all OSGeo projects

The how it works page doesn't mention how the word of this gets out to students, or does Google handle that?? How is promotion to students handled?? (Jeff)
Discuss the opportunity to create "virtual environments" for the students to play with, and eventually come up with a patch? For example, for tasks that would otherwise require access to sensitive systems, e.g. SAC, web pages, etc.. (madi)
It is not clear to me if it's possible to use more than one bug tracker or we must use the osgeo tracker for all the projects (madi)
Is it necessary for the students to pick from different "types" of tasks or they can decide to complete only one type? (madi)