GSOC 2018 Participation

Jody Garnett Public Seen by 327

We have a group of volunteers interested in leading osgeo participation in google summer of code.

So we are writing to the Board to update you about the composition of the admin team for 2018 edition and to formally receive mandate to act on behalf of OSGeo, applying for GSoC 2018. The members of the admin team for 2018 are:

Florin-Daniel Cioloboc,

Werner Macho,

Helmut Kudrnovsky,

Jeff McKenna,

Margherita Di Leo,

Anne Ghisla (as emeritus - will offer guidance and advise in case of need)

This thread is to review our participation in GSOC plans for 2018.

Jody Garnett Mon 8 Jan 2018 5:25PM

I note our 2018 budget included 3,000 USD to support these activities.

It may be a good idea to realize this mandate as a committee - rather than a yearly initiative. Advantage would be accountability for annual budget, wider mandate to identify and participate in student outreach programs like GSOC, Google Code-In, Facebook Open Academy, etc...

Angelos Tzotsos Mon 8 Jan 2018 5:27PM

If GSoC is a committee, then Board approval is not needed to bring in more committee members...

Angelos Tzotsos Mon 8 Jan 2018 7:12PM

ok, it is clear from the mailing list posts that GSoC is not a committee and wishes to remain an initiative.

Poll Created Mon 8 Jan 2018 8:46PM

OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2018 Participation Closed Fri 12 Jan 2018 8:21PM

Outcome

by Jody Garnett Fri 12 Jan 2018 9:48PM

This motion has passed, thanks to everyone for responding quickly.

We have two action items to account for:

1) Update staging.www.osgeo.org/initiatives/gsoc/ covering 2018 participation

2) email/blog post announcement calling for mentors

Motion as per email-request:

> Set up initiative for OSGeo participation in Google Summer of Code 2018 with volunteers Florin-Daniel Cioloboc, Werner Macho, Helmut Kudrnovsky, Jeff McKenna, Margherita Di Leo, and Anne Ghisla focused on student outreach.

Associated actions: