<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60302&topic=10727">http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60302&topic=10727</a></span><br><br>I don't think it was anything particular about us .. just that we were late on the scene, and don't have any Google people contributing to OSM.<br><br>So I think it's possible, if we get organized soon. I think the first step would be to check any contacts we have at Google,<br>see if we can drum up interest or a champion. Or at least, get an informal indication from the SoC people what our chances are.<br><br>Or we can just go ahead. A useful exercise, a taking stock of all our various development efforts,<br>what's hot, needs consolidation,
or needs more attention. Even if it's not through Summer of Code,<br>we have collectively many university contacts and there's interested students everywhere.<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_2006">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_2006</a></span><br><br><br>In a larger scope, it would be a good exercise to review what people are developing, <br>go through trac, do a bit of project planning and add some collective ideas to all our personal itch scratching.<br><br>-Mikel<br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: SteveC <steve@asklater.com><br>To: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li><br>Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org<br>Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 3:01:20 PM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] summer of code<br><br><div>I think we'll get ignored like last year. Mikel, is there anything we <br>can
change from the last attempt?<br><br>Dominic Hargreaves wrote:<br>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:47:03PM +0100, Rapha?l Jacquot wrote:<br>>> anyone wants to propose something to google ?<br>>><br>>> <a target="_blank" href="http://code.google.com/soc/">http://code.google.com/soc/</a><br>> <br>> I think this would be an excellent thing for OSM to get involved in - do<br>> we have any suitable student candidates already involved/interested in<br>> OSM (as a precursor to actually talking about what they might do)<br>> <br>> Dominic.<br>> <br><br>-- <br>have fun,<br><br>SteveC steve@asklater.com <a target="_blank" href="http://www.asklater.com/steve/">http://www.asklater.com/steve/</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br>talk@openstreetmap.org<br><a target="_blank"
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