[OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Once you have those ideas how are you gong to pick one? I for one think:
>
>  * You should try to make students work on existing /active/ projects
> instead of sending them off on their own for 3 months
>

Yes, that's why we are soliciting ideas for projects. Some of these projects
could include a feature on JOSM or Potlatch.


>  * In particular, assume that they'll be working for 3 months and
> we'll never hear from them again. I think there are some numbers on
> the % of GSOC students that stay around after the 3 months and IIRC
> they're alarmingly low
>

Of the 6 students that were assigned to us last year, I'm fairly certain (I
was the administrator for last year's GSoC, but I don't have the numbers in
front of me) the majority of them turned in usable and helpful code.
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