Hi Tim, <div><br></div><div>Graham submitted the application yesterday. It's almost same as<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010/Organisation_Application"> this</a>. The portal is open for editing till March 12'10 . </div>
<div>We are still looking for more project ideas, and volunteers for mentoring, if you have some ideas or anybody from OSM community has them, please feel free to edit <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010">GSoC Project Ideas 2010</a> page.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Rajan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Tim Waters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chippy2005@gmail.com">chippy2005@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Just a little bump to us that applications are open for organisations<br>
to apply, and we have 3 days left.<br>
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<a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-summer-of-code-applications-now.html" target="_blank">http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-summer-of-code-applications-now.html</a><br>
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Tim<br>
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On 28 February 2010 19:05, Graham Jones <<a href="mailto:grahamjones139@googlemail.com">grahamjones139@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi There,<br>
> It will soon be time for OpenStreetMap to apply to join the 2010 Google<br>
> Summer of Code Programme. This gives students the opportunity to work on<br>
> open source projects during the summer, for which they receive some payment<br>
> by Google. It costs us nothing more than providing a Mentor to guide the<br>
> student.<br>
><br>
> It would be really useful if we could put together a list of potential<br>
> student projects to get potential applicants thinking. The projects need<br>
> to be fairly well defined to make it easy to judge 'success', so it is good<br>
> to have specific targets.<br>
><br>
> From recent discussions on these lists I have identified the following<br>
> possibilities so far:<br>
><br>
> Develop a stand alone 'Newbie'/'Introductory'/'Lite' Editor - the priority<br>
> is ease of use rather than functionality.<br>
> Help with the development of Potlatch 2 (maybe to include the 'lite' editor<br>
> functionality) - we would need to help the applicants identify specific<br>
> targets.<br>
> Develop a simple 'mapping tool' for mobile phones to easily collect GPX<br>
> traces, geotagged images and geotagged audio clips. Ideally it should be<br>
> capable of running on both Android, J2ME and Iphones, so you can have the<br>
> same simple application no matter what sort of phone you use.<br>
> Improve the usability of a simple mobile phone map editing application (such<br>
> as vespucci for android).<br>
> Incorporation of OSM data and traffic data.<br>
><br>
> I am sure there are other things that I am not familiar with too - would it<br>
> be useful for someone to do some work on tools to process OSM data in some<br>
> way, or are there any tasks on the OSM server itself that could be turned<br>
> into projects?<br>
><br>
> Please will you give some thought to other possibilities and either add them<br>
> to the GSoC 2010 Wiki Page<br>
> (<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2010</a>) or reply by<br>
> email if you prefer.<br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
><br>
> Graham.<br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Graham Jones<br>
> Hartlepool, UK<br>
> email: <a href="mailto:grahamjones139@gmail.com">grahamjones139@gmail.com</a><br>
><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Rajan Vaish<br>ASE at Accenture Technology Labs (R&D)<br>http://LinkedIn.com/in/RajanVaish<br>
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