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'''1. Describe your organization.'''  
 
'''1. Describe your organization.'''  
  
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'''3. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and  failures of your student projects.'''  
 
'''3. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and  failures of your student projects.'''  
  
OSGeo was formed in early 2006 and hasn't participated in GSoC in previous years.  However, Refractions Research did participate in 2006 on behalf of the GeoTools project, which is now an OSGeo project and will be participating through OSGeo.  The previously participating mentors and administrator from 2006 are supporting the OSGeo 2007 effort.  
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OSGeo was formed in early 2006 and hasn't participated in GSoC in previous years.  However, Refractions Research did participate in 2006 on behalf of the GeoTools, uDig, and PostGIS projects which will be participating through OSGeo.  The previously participating mentors and administrator from 2006 are supporting the OSGeo 2007 effort.  
  
 
'''4. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?'''  
 
'''4. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?'''  
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Refractions Research participated in 2006, and sent 2 delegates to the mentor conference.
  
 
'''5. Who will your organization administrator be? Please include Google Account information.'''  
 
'''5. Who will your organization administrator be? Please include Google Account information.'''  
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'''6. What license does your project use?'''  
 
'''6. What license does your project use?'''  
  
Different OSGeo projects operate under a variety of OSI approved licenses
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Different projects operate under a variety of OSI approved licenses, mainly GPL, LGPL, and MIT/X.
 
 
* GRASS - GPL
 
* GeoTools - LGPL
 
* GDAL - MIT/X
 
* MapGuide - LGPL
 
* MapServer - MIT/X
 
* OpenJUMP - GPL
 
  
 
'''7. What is the URL for your ideas page?'''  
 
'''7. What is the URL for your ideas page?'''  
  
''fill in - transfer from http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code#Project_Ideas_Lists ''
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* [[GDAL SoC Ideas]]
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* [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDEV/GeoServer+Summer+of+Code+Ideas GeoServer SoC Ideas]
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* [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/Google+Summer+of+Code GeoTools Soc Ideas]
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* [http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_SoC_Ideas GRASS SoC Ideas]
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* [http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/GoogleSoC2007 MapGuide Soc Ideas]
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* [[PostGIS SoC Ideas 2007|PostGIS SoC Ideas]]
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* [http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/HACK/Summer+of+Code+2007 User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS SoC Ideas]
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* [[OpenJUMP 2007 SOC Ideas]]
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* [[MapServer_2007_SOC_Ideas]]
  
 
'''8. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?'''  
 
'''8. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?'''  
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discuss@lists.osgeo.org - see http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
 
discuss@lists.osgeo.org - see http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
  
''add discussion lists for active projects''
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'''Project lists'''
  
 
* GeoServer - geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ( [http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel details] )
 
* GeoServer - geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ( [http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel details] )
 
* GeoTools - geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ( [http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel details] )
 
* GeoTools - geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ( [http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel details] )
 
* uDig - udig-devel@lists.refractions.net ( [http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel details] )
 
* uDig - udig-devel@lists.refractions.net ( [http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel details] )
* MapGuide  
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* MapGuide - mapguide-internals@lists.osgeo.org ( [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-internals details] )
** mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org ( [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users details] )
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* OpenJUMP - jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ( [http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel details] )
** mapguide-internals@lists.osgeo.org ( [http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-internals details] )
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* MapServer - mapserver-dev@lists.umn.edu ( [http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/mailinglists/mapserver-dev/  details] )
* OpenJUMP - jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ( [https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel details] )
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* GDAL - gdal-dev@lists.maptools.org ( [http://lists.maptools.org/
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* PostGIS - postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net ( [http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users details] )
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* GRASS - grass-dev@grass.itc.it ( [http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev details] )
  
 
'''9. What is the main IRC channel for your organization?'''  
 
'''9. What is the main IRC channel for your organization?'''  
  
#osgeo on irc.freenode.net
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irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
  
''list irc channels for active projects''
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'''Project irc channels:'''
  
* irc://freenode/#geoserver
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* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geoserver
* irc://freenode/#geotools
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* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geotools
* irc://freenode/#udig
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* irc://irc.freenode.net/#udig
* irc://freenode/#mapguide
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* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapguide
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* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapserver
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* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gdal
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* irc://irc.freenode.net/#postgis
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* irc://irc.freenode.net/#grass
  
 
'''10. Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now.'''  
 
'''10. Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now.'''  
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'''12. Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account Information.'''  
 
'''12. Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account Information.'''  
  
''to fill in''
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Google Accounts can be checked/created from: https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount
  
* jody.garnett [] gmail.com - available for uDig, GeoTools, GeoServer
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* jody.garnett [] gmail.com (Jody Garnett) - available for uDig, GeoTools, GeoServer
* hobuisu [] gmail.com - available for GDAL
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* hobuisu [] gmail.com (Howard Butler) - available for GDAL
* jason.birch [] gmail.com - MapGuide
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* jason.birch [] gmail.com (Jason Birch) - MapGuide
* pagameba [] gmail.com - (Paul Spencer) MapGuide
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* pagameba [] gmail.com (Paul Spencer) - MapGuide
* sunburned.surveyor[]gmail.com (Landon Blake) OpenJUMP
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* trevor.wekel [] autodesk.com (Trevor Wekel) - MapGuide
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* rbraygle [] gmail.com / robert.bray [] autodesk.com (Bob Bray) - MapGuide
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* sunburned.surveyor [] gmail.com (Landon Blake) - OpenJUMP
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* erwan.bocher [] gmail.com (Erwan Bocher) - OpenJUMP Alternate Mentor
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* bruce.dechant [] autodesk.com (Bruce Dechant) - MapGuide
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* mloskot [] gmail.com (Mateusz Loskot) - available for GEOS, GDAL
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* dmorissette [] gmail.com (Daniel Morissette) - available for MapServer
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* simon.pelicon [] gmail.com (Simon Pelicon) - MapGuide
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* hkurtagic [] gmail.com (Haris Kurtagic) - MapGuide (backup for Simon)
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* fwarmerdam [] gmail.com (Frank Warmerdam)- GDAL, MapServer
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* simboss1 [] gmail.com (Simone Giannecchini) - GeoServer
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* alessio.fabiani [] gmail.com (Alessio Fabiani) - GeoServer
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* ijturton [] gmail.com (Ian Turton) - GeoServer, GeoTools
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* tkeitt [] gmail.com (Tim Keitt) - PostGIS
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* andrea.antonello [] gmail.com (Andrea Antonello) - available for uDig, GeoTools
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* paulthedj [] gmail.com (Paul Kelly) - GRASS (r.los project)
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* wolf [] bergenheim.net (Wolf Bergenheim) - GRASS (line generalization / Shortest path projects)
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* rob.private.atkinson [] gmail.com (Rob Atkinson) - GeoTools
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* chorner [] refractions.net (Cory Horner) - uDig
  
 
'''13. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.'''  
 
'''13. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.'''  
  
Mentors are selected by project steering committees based on their reputation as skilled developers, previously demonstrated ability to support new project developers, and stated willingness to devote time to the mentoring process.
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Mentors are selected by project steering comittees based on their reputation as skilled developers, previously demonstrated ability to support new project developers, and stated willingness to devote time to the mentoring process.
  
 
'''14. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?'''
 
'''14. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?'''
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Plan A:
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In order to minimize the likelyhood of disappearing students we will ensure that the OSGeo administrative contact and the mentor have full contact information (email, home phone, etc) so that we can keep in touch with them.
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In addition, we will make our reporting requirements clear up front.  Letting the students know that we will require weekly progress reports, participation on public IRC channels and mailing lists will all help ensure ongoing commitment to the work.
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Plan B:
  
 
Leveraging Open Source software from the OSGeo stack, coupled with high-accuracy data sources, volunteers from the open source community will process the data, including student metadata, and the results will be used for the targeting instructions for high-powered space-based lasers. Results of this will be displayed on a large video wall, which will prove that the student really has disappeared, and should act as a deterrent to future student disappearances.
 
Leveraging Open Source software from the OSGeo stack, coupled with high-accuracy data sources, volunteers from the open source community will process the data, including student metadata, and the results will be used for the targeting instructions for high-powered space-based lasers. Results of this will be displayed on a large video wall, which will prove that the student really has disappeared, and should act as a deterrent to future student disappearances.
  
http://ossim.telascience.org/ossimdata/nhv/DSCF0129.JPG
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http://www.jasonbirch.com/files/space_lasers.jpg
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([http://ossim.telascience.org/ossimdata/nhv/DSCF0129.JPG resized from] )
  
 
'''15. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?'''  
 
'''15. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?'''  
  
Project steering committees will appoint replacement mentors if existing mentors become unavailable or unresponsive during the project period.  We considered a strategy similar to dealing with students, but we don't want to turn off potential future mentors.
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Project steering committees will appoint replacement mentors if existing mentors become unavailable or unresponsive during the project period.
  
 
'''16. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?'''  
 
'''16. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?'''  
  
''to fill in''
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The steps taken depend on the individual projects, as example last year GeoTools project has asked for weekly attendence at IRC meetings or status email.
  
The steps taken depend on the individual projects, as example last year GeoTools project has asked for weekly attendence at IRC meetings or status email.
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Other possibilities include:
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# Having potential students work with their potential mentor to prepare a brief plan for the implementation of their project.
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# Setting milestones that need to be reached by the student. These milestones would be defined before the student's work begins. A student would subsequently write a brief e-mail informing  the appropriate OSGeo or project-specific mailing list when they have reached a milestone, giving a brief description of the work completed to that date.
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# Selecting students that have shown interest previously in the geospatial field.  
  
 
'''17. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?'''
 
'''17. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?'''
  
''to fill in''
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The steps taken depend on the individual projects, as example last year GeoTools project asked that students act as a "module maintainer" for their work. This role has an expected level of support associated with it.
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Apart from that, we are relying on the open development process and the appreciation that students will receive for implementing these needed features to provide positive feedback for the students.  The projects will be encouraging the students to take ownership of their work, and to contribute in other areas they may be interested in.  In some cases students may also have opportunities for future contract work if they make a good impression on community members.
  
The steps taken depend on the individual projects, as example last year GeoTools project asked that students act as a "module maintainer" for their work. This roll has an expected level of support associated with it.
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[[Category: Google Summer of Code]]

Latest revision as of 00:22, 3 February 2011

Application submitted ... no need any longer to update this page.


1. Describe your organization.

OSGeo is an incorporated not-for-profit organization serving as an umbrella organization for the Open Source Geospatial community in general, and 12 projects in particular.

2. Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What do you hope to gain by participating?

We hope to get more students involved in open source geospatial development to grow the development community, and to advance particular projects.

3. Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and failures of your student projects.

OSGeo was formed in early 2006 and hasn't participated in GSoC in previous years. However, Refractions Research did participate in 2006 on behalf of the GeoTools, uDig, and PostGIS projects which will be participating through OSGeo. The previously participating mentors and administrator from 2006 are supporting the OSGeo 2007 effort.

4. If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?

Refractions Research participated in 2006, and sent 2 delegates to the mentor conference.

5. Who will your organization administrator be? Please include Google Account information.

Frank Warmerdam, OSGeo President - account: fwarmerdam

6. What license does your project use?

Different projects operate under a variety of OSI approved licenses, mainly GPL, LGPL, and MIT/X.

7. What is the URL for your ideas page?

8. What is the main development mailing list for your organization?

discuss@lists.osgeo.org - see http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Project lists

  • GeoServer - geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ( details )
  • GeoTools - geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ( details )
  • uDig - udig-devel@lists.refractions.net ( details )
  • MapGuide - mapguide-internals@lists.osgeo.org ( details )
  • OpenJUMP - jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ( details )
  • MapServer - mapserver-dev@lists.umn.edu ( details )
  • GDAL - gdal-dev@lists.maptools.org ( [http://lists.maptools.org/
  • PostGIS - postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net ( details )
  • GRASS - grass-dev@grass.itc.it ( details )

9. What is the main IRC channel for your organization?

irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo

Project irc channels:

10. Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now.

consider

11. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please include Google Account information.

Landon Blake - sunburned.surveyor [] gmail.com

12. Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account Information.

Google Accounts can be checked/created from: https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount

  • jody.garnett [] gmail.com (Jody Garnett) - available for uDig, GeoTools, GeoServer
  • hobuisu [] gmail.com (Howard Butler) - available for GDAL
  • jason.birch [] gmail.com (Jason Birch) - MapGuide
  • pagameba [] gmail.com (Paul Spencer) - MapGuide
  • trevor.wekel [] autodesk.com (Trevor Wekel) - MapGuide
  • rbraygle [] gmail.com / robert.bray [] autodesk.com (Bob Bray) - MapGuide
  • sunburned.surveyor [] gmail.com (Landon Blake) - OpenJUMP
  • erwan.bocher [] gmail.com (Erwan Bocher) - OpenJUMP Alternate Mentor
  • bruce.dechant [] autodesk.com (Bruce Dechant) - MapGuide
  • mloskot [] gmail.com (Mateusz Loskot) - available for GEOS, GDAL
  • dmorissette [] gmail.com (Daniel Morissette) - available for MapServer
  • simon.pelicon [] gmail.com (Simon Pelicon) - MapGuide
  • hkurtagic [] gmail.com (Haris Kurtagic) - MapGuide (backup for Simon)
  • fwarmerdam [] gmail.com (Frank Warmerdam)- GDAL, MapServer
  • simboss1 [] gmail.com (Simone Giannecchini) - GeoServer
  • alessio.fabiani [] gmail.com (Alessio Fabiani) - GeoServer
  • ijturton [] gmail.com (Ian Turton) - GeoServer, GeoTools
  • tkeitt [] gmail.com (Tim Keitt) - PostGIS
  • andrea.antonello [] gmail.com (Andrea Antonello) - available for uDig, GeoTools
  • paulthedj [] gmail.com (Paul Kelly) - GRASS (r.los project)
  • wolf [] bergenheim.net (Wolf Bergenheim) - GRASS (line generalization / Shortest path projects)
  • rob.private.atkinson [] gmail.com (Rob Atkinson) - GeoTools
  • chorner [] refractions.net (Cory Horner) - uDig

13. What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.

Mentors are selected by project steering comittees based on their reputation as skilled developers, previously demonstrated ability to support new project developers, and stated willingness to devote time to the mentoring process.

14. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?

Plan A:

In order to minimize the likelyhood of disappearing students we will ensure that the OSGeo administrative contact and the mentor have full contact information (email, home phone, etc) so that we can keep in touch with them.

In addition, we will make our reporting requirements clear up front. Letting the students know that we will require weekly progress reports, participation on public IRC channels and mailing lists will all help ensure ongoing commitment to the work.

Plan B:

Leveraging Open Source software from the OSGeo stack, coupled with high-accuracy data sources, volunteers from the open source community will process the data, including student metadata, and the results will be used for the targeting instructions for high-powered space-based lasers. Results of this will be displayed on a large video wall, which will prove that the student really has disappeared, and should act as a deterrent to future student disappearances.

http://www.jasonbirch.com/files/space_lasers.jpg (resized from )

15. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?

Project steering committees will appoint replacement mentors if existing mentors become unavailable or unresponsive during the project period.

16. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?

The steps taken depend on the individual projects, as example last year GeoTools project has asked for weekly attendence at IRC meetings or status email.

Other possibilities include:

  1. Having potential students work with their potential mentor to prepare a brief plan for the implementation of their project.
  2. Setting milestones that need to be reached by the student. These milestones would be defined before the student's work begins. A student would subsequently write a brief e-mail informing the appropriate OSGeo or project-specific mailing list when they have reached a milestone, giving a brief description of the work completed to that date.
  3. Selecting students that have shown interest previously in the geospatial field.

17. What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?

The steps taken depend on the individual projects, as example last year GeoTools project asked that students act as a "module maintainer" for their work. This role has an expected level of support associated with it.

Apart from that, we are relying on the open development process and the appreciation that students will receive for implementing these needed features to provide positive feedback for the students. The projects will be encouraging the students to take ownership of their work, and to contribute in other areas they may be interested in. In some cases students may also have opportunities for future contract work if they make a good impression on community members.