Hi,<br>I would like to thank everyone that contributed suggestions to the Project Ideas list for Google Summer of Code - the people from Google must have liked your suggestions!.<br><br>OSM is one of 153 organisations that have been accepted onto the programme, along with OSGeo and Mapnik.<br>
<br>Between now and 29th March, would be students will choose which of the accepted organisations they are interested in, and contact them to discuss project ideas. I would encourage any students interested in applying to OSM to contact us before applying to discuss their ideas if possible.<br>
The formal application period starts on 29th March and ends on 09th April (See the <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010#Time_Line">timeline</a>).<br><br>Students apply through the Google Summer of Code <a href="http://socghop.appspot.com/">Web Site</a>. Please apply formally as early as possible - you can edit your application after submission and we can start reviewing it and make comments if you submit it early.<br>
Potential Mentors will review the applications and rank them to choose which proposals are to be accepted.<br><br>Please would anyone who is interested in acting as a mentor contact me off this list and we will sort out access to the site and discuss how to manage the reviewing of applications.<br>
<br>Finally if any of you know a student that likes computer programming, please encourage them to consider applying.<br><br>Thank you all for your support.<br><br>Regards<br><br><br>Graham.<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 18 March 2010 19:41, Rajan Vaish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vaish.rajan@gmail.com">vaish.rajan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Congratulations OSM Community,<div>OSM got accepted as mentoring organization for the third time in 2010. Thanks to Graham for his much appreciated efforts and Ian for his valuable comments/suggestions. Now, this means, that OSM will get student programmers to work on some much needed project implementations, and Google will sponsor them. Few mentioned here -> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010</a> , please feel free to add/edit the same.If you are a student, consider participating the same by submitting your proposal. To begin with, explore Project ideas page, and/or create draft of your proposal here -> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/Student_Applications" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/Student_Applications</a> . </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Rajan<br><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr. Graham Jones<br>Hartlepool, UK<br>email: <a href="mailto:grahamjones139@gmail.com">grahamjones139@gmail.com</a><br>