GRASS SoC Ideas 2011

About

This is the GRASS page for Google Summer of Code 2011. Here we will list project ideas and and other information related to the GRASS GSoC projects.

• Official Google Summer of Code 2011 homepage
• OSGeo SoC 2011 homepage

Promotion:

• Videos at http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/Videos
• More Flyers at http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers

Timeline

See GSoC timeline

• √ Mentoring organization applications open (March 11)

• Accepted mentoring organizations announced (March 18)

• Interested students should initiate preliminary discussions with projects (March 18-27)

• Student applications open (March 28)

• Deadline for student's applications (April 8)

Registering your application early (before the deadline) allows us to give you feedback for revisions before the final deadline, enhancing your proposal and thus giving you a better chance of success.

• Mentor assignments and application reviews deadline (April 22)

• Accepted proposals announced (April 25)

• Community bonding time (getting to know the students)

• Work Begins (May 23)

• Midterm evaluation (July 11-15)

• Pencils down! (August 15)

• Final evaluations submitted to Google (August 22)

• Final results of GSoC 2011 announced (August 29)

• Students can begin submitting required code samples to Google (August 30)

Required Steps

• List ideas

• Assign Mentors to Ideas

• Notify OSGeo

• Mentors evaluate student applications

• Accepted students announced

• Students subscribe to the grass-dev mailing list and introduce themselves

• Create directory structure in the GRASS add-ons SVN for projects and setup access for students
  • Students must read and post agreement to RFC2 to the grass-psc mailing list to gain SVN access
  • Create a Wiki page for each accepted project, to be used as a progress reporting tool

• Coding begins...

• Students and mentors: Complete the Mid-term survey

• Final commit and packaging for Google

Ideas

• Also review ideas from 2008, 2009, and 2010which are still open.
• Project ideas of your own are also most welcome.