[OSM-dev] GSOC 2017 with Vespucci

[Peter Barth]

Hi Devansh,

you have started in the right direction for sure. We value students
being proactive, students that make themselves known to our beloved
project and students that had a first glance at the project they want to
contribute to. So all this is great.

What we need to do is to find a project that meets your skills and that
meets our needs. In most cases we have a list of project ideas on our
wiki (not much on there yet), but we are also happy about project ideas
our students bring forward! 

I'd suggest to also have a look at Vespucci's issue tracker. First of you 
might find some smaller bugs you could perhaps fix to get you even
more familarized with the code base. Second you might find enhancements
or tasks that could give a project for GSoC 2017 for you or if there
are only smaller task even a small list of such tasks might form a GSoC
project for you.

I hope that helps for a start. Other than that, Simon (the maintainer of
Vespucci) will give you some more advice soon. Perhaps you could even
approach him with more concrete ideas for a project. Please also note
that we (OpenStreetMap) did not apply and are not accepted to GSoC yet
(but I sure hope we will). And as a last comment: #osm-gsoc irc should be 
revived now ;-)

Regards,
Peda