<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Pavel Melnikov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:positron96@gmail.com" target="_blank">positron96@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Hello everyone.</div><div style="font-size:small">I'd like to apply for this year's Summer of Code to code something interesting and useful for <span style="background-color:yellow">OpenStreetMap</span>, and as I enjoy mobile developing, I'd like something mobile) I have some questions about the procedure though.</div>
<div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">First is, since <span style="background-color:yellow">OSM</span> projects will be hosted under <span style="background-color:yellow">OSGeo</span> mentoring organization this year, will it mean that there would be less <span style="background-color:yellow">OSM</span> projects? I mean, there probably is some quota for projects per organization - and <span style="background-color:yellow">OSGeo</span> certainly has projects of their own.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>We'll get a portion of the slots that OSGeo gets. We have an agreement with OSGeo about how many slots OSM gets but I'd rather not say how many in order to encourage as many ideas as possible.</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">And secondly, what is the community acceptance status of ideas on our <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/Project_Ideas" target="_blank">GSoC'13 wiki</a> page? Are they proposed by a single person (possibly a to-be mentor) and need more discussion and refining here once application period starts?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Yes, the ideas presented there are usually proposed by a single person that may or may not be a possible mentor. The students should use those ideas as a base for their idea proposals.</div>
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