Good timing - we were talking about this very topic in todays GeoTools meeting. And arriving at a similar spot - that OSGeo would be the best organization for the task.
What we initial need however is someone on the "admin" side to get the OSGeo effort underway; perhaps provide a template for "ideas" and help play match maker when the students come to call. Is this person you? Jody PS. Ideas for any of these email lists are not a problem; from last years experience I would recommend spending effort on making sure the ideas are communicated well. PS. CCing a bunch of lists does not work (everyone get's bounce messages as they hit "reply-to-all", and you need to tag in the OSGeo discussion list. > As part of my efforts to be more active on the "open source geospatial > community" I have agreed to help Frank Wammerdam with the Google > Summer of Code coordination at the OSGeo. (Thanks to Paul Ramsey for > some encouragement in this regard.) > > I'd really like to see some GeoTools and JUMP/OpenJUMP projects make > it in to the Summer of Code umbrella at the OSGeo. I am willing to > prepare a Summer of Code proposal for a DXF reader/writer that we can > contribute to GeoTools and use in JUMP/OpenJUMP and UDig. I am also > willing to prepare a proposal to add some improvements and new > features to JTS. I would also mentor both projects. > > However, I don't know any students enrolled in programming courses > that would be interested in this. I know some of my fellow > JUMP/OpenJUMP developers and the GeoTools developers would be in a > better position in this regard. If I prepare one or two of the > proposals I mentioned will we be able to find interested students to > participate? > > Thanks for your help with this. > > The Sunburned Surveyor > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
