Google Summer of Code 2008 Administrative

Central page for administering OSGeo participation in Google Summer of Code 2008.

Background

• Wolf Bergenheim will act as Administrative contact, with support from Frank Warmerdam.
• Google documentation on the program is at: http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442
• There is also a Google Wiki page about the program: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/WikiStart
• Last years GSoC submission: http://code.google.com/soc/2007/osgeo/about.html
• Last years GSoC page: Google Summer of Code 2007
• Mentoring HOWTO: http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/summer-of-code-mentoring-howto/index.html
• Advice for Mentors from the Google Wiki: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors

Timeline

• March 3rd: Project applications will be accepted
• March 24th: Student applications

Project Ideas Lists

Please link project specific proposed projects here:

• Chisimba SoC Ideas
• GDAL SoC Ideas
• GRASS SoC Ideas
• Mapbender SoC ideas 2008
• OpenLayers SoC Ideas

these need updating!

• GeoServer SoC Ideas
• GeoTools Soc Ideas
• MapGuide Soc Ideas
• PostGIS SoC Ideas
• User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS SoC Ideas
• OpenJUMP 2007 SOC Ideas
• MapServer 2007 SOC Ideas

The "Student Landing Page" is 2008 SoC Merged Ideas.

Documents

These pages also need updating!

• OSGeo 2007 Google SoC Application
• SoC Application Rankings by Project

Project Milestones

2008 Google SoC Project Milestones

Project Pages

Each accepted Soc Project should be listed here, and the page should be updated with information about the progress of the project.