[Orekit Developers] ESA launches its Summer Of Code In Space (SOCIS) project

[MAISONOBE Luc <luc.maisonobe@c-s.fr>]

Hello,

The European Space Agency has launched is Summer Of Code In Space  
(SOCIS) project, which mimics(but is not related) the Goggle Summer Of  
Code (GSOC). The project main page is here:  
<http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2011/>.

Of course, as Orekit is a space-oriented open-source project, we will  
propose several subjects to students interested in Space Flight  
Dynamics. We have started a wiki page for this on Orekit forge here:  
<https://www.orekit.org/forge/projects/orekit/wiki/SOCIS>. I think  
this is a great opportunity for the project and its community. If any  
of you has subject ideas, feel free to discuss about it on the list so  
we can add them. The schedule is really tight as ESA will select the  
mentoring organizations by July 15th, so we must have all our subjects  
ready by that time.

If ESA selects one or more of our subjects and suitable students are  
willing to do the work, we will mentor them. This mentoring will  
involve helping them interacting with our community at large, so they  
will probably be asking questions and discussing on this list or the  
users list. This should help them learn how to interact with an  
open-source project and its community.

Does anybody have some more subject ideas ?

best regards,
Luc

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