The document describes iRail Summer of Code (iSoc), a 1-month coding event where students work on projects using public data. Participants receive technical support and share ideas to avoid duplicative work. Sponsors gain logo visibility and can engage with students at workshops. The event organizers propose several project ideas like a generic API or commuter tools that could benefit sponsors by leveraging students' skills at low cost.

1. iRail Summer of code

2. Today

3. A lot of companies are opening their data

4. Soon

5. A non-profit organization?
No return on investment? No business model?
Are you going to put a photograph of your head in the banner of
iRail.be and ask for donations?

6. iRail as an independent living lab
pre-businessplan-projects

7. The living lab
the idea-loop

8. July 2011
iRail Summer of code
(iSoc)

9. A coding event
● 1 month of fulltime coding
● Projects with public data
● Pollination
● Tech-support for every project
● No double work
● People exchange ideas
● We organize workshops

10. Sponsors
● iSoc sponsors
● Zeropoint.IT
● Xplore+
● «You»
● You get
● Logo visibility on SummerOfCode.be
● Visibility on workshops
● Visibility in the project's about

11. Investors/promoters
● Project ideas
● The DataTank – A generic REST API
● a “Megabike” for traindelays
● Visualizations for commuters
● «Your project-idea»
● Why should you invest?
● Last-year engineering students
● Cheap & well-done
● If not now, when will you do this project?

12. Spare words not used in this presentation,
but therefore not less relevant:
Innovation, essential, cloud computing, federated,
distributed, semantic, social, open data, scalable,
durable...

13. Thank you for you attention
summerofcode.be