GSoC 2008 Application
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This page has been superseded by the OSGeo GSoC 2008 Joint Application Page
Copied from Applying to Google Summer of Code. My (--Christoph Baudson 09:57, 10 March 2008 (CET)) answers in between.
What should a mentoring organization application look like?
In addition to anything else your organization would like to submit as an application, Google will be asking (at least) the following questions as part of the application process:
Describe your organization
We are your service provider for digital maps. We make your geospatial information available with competent support in the area of geospatial databases, geographical information systems (GIS), WebGIS, standards, interoperability und systems integration.
The WhereGroup is specialized in providing premium support for Open Source technologies and how to professionally integrate Free Software seamlessly with proprietary systems.
We implement solutions on all levels of the public administration, private enterprises and industry. We give consultation focused on your planning needs, migration concepts and the introduction of geospatial information management of your data. We offer comprehensive, professional and qualifified support.
(copied from wheregroup.com)
Mapbender is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project and all about maps! Have a look at this map application. You can zoom in, out, pan, click and query, turn layers on and off or add more maps. You can also add new points to the map with the flag button, all Mapbender operators are invited to do so. There are many different possibilities to make use of maps, see some more examples in the Mapbender Gallery. Please observe that this software only shows and manages maps. The maps themselves come from many different Map Services all over the world.
Mapbender is the software and portal site for geodata management of OGC OWS architectures. The software provides web technology for managing spatial data services implemented in PHP, JavaScript and XML. It provides a data model and interfaces for displaying, navigating and querying OGC compliant map services. The Mapbender framework furthermore provides authentication and authorization services, OWS proxy functionality, management interfaces for user, group and service administration in WebGIS projects.
(copied from mapbender.org)
Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What do you hope to gain by participating?
The WhereGroup acts as the main sponsor to the Mapbender project and is interested in its steady growth. WhereGroup is also interested in employing students who have successfully participated in a project.
Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and failures of your student projects.
We did not participate.
If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)?
We have never applied in the past.
Who will your organization administrator be? Please include Google Account information.
The organization administrator will be Christoph Baudson, his Google account is christoph.baudson@wheregroup.com
What license does your project use?
The Mapbender project is licensed under GPLv2 or later.
What is the URL for your ideas page?
The ideas page can be found at http://www.mapbender.org/GSoC_2008.
What is the main development mailing list for your organization?
The development mailing list of the Mapbender project can be found at http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapbender_dev
What is the main IRC channel for your organization?
The Mapbender IRC channel can be found at irc://irc.freenode.net#mapbender. For those behind a firewall a HTML-Interface at http://irc.telascience.org can be used.
Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now.
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The students will work on Mapbender version 2.5, which can be downloaded at the Mapbender website at http://www.mapbender.org
Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please include Google Account information.
- Astrid Emde (Google account astrid_emde@osgeo.org)
Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account Information.
- Christoph Baudson (Google account christoph.baudson@wheregroup.com)
- Astrid Emde (Google account astrid_emde@osgeo.org)
- Marko Samson (Google account marko.samson@gmail.com)
- Uli Rothstein (Google account uli@osgeo.org)
- Lars Beck (Google account lars.beck@wheregroup.com)
- Vera Schulze (Google account vera.schulze@wheregroup.com)
What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible.
The mentors listed above are all long-term contributors to the Mapbender project and thus have shown a huge commitment to the project. They all have a vast expertise in the field of open source geospatial software.
What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students?
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What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors?
All mentors are long term contributors to the Mapbender project and thus have shown a huge commitment to the project. Some of the mentors are also employed at WhereGroup and will therefore be paid to do the mentoring.
What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program?
There could be a face-to-face kick-off meeting at the WhereGroup office in Bonn, Germany where students will be given a detailled tour of the project's infrastructure.
There is a weekly IRC meeting to assure continouus dialogue with the students. There could be weekly reports on the status of the projects in the Mapbender Wiki.
During the project students will be trained to use
- SVN
- mailing lists
- IRC
- Wiki
- Trac
Each student will be given an account to these media.
During the course of the projects, students could be assigned roles within the Mapbender project, which they could cling to after the project has been fulfilled.
What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes?
During the course of the projects, students could be assigned roles within the Mapbender project, which they could cling to after the project has been fulfilled.
Another option would that WhereGroup could recruit successful students to guarantee they stick to the project.
Submit application
The application will be submitted here.
