[OSGeo-Announce] OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2013 final report

[Anne Ghisla]

OSGeo participated to Google Summer of Code 2013 with 22 accepted
students from 15 software projects. This has been the seventh
consecutive year of participation for OSGeo, with the highest success
rate ever: 21 of 22 students got a positive final evaluation from their
mentors.

OSGeo acted as an umbrella organisation for its own software projects
(GEOS, GRASS GIS, gvSIG, MapServer, Opticks, OSGeo4W, OSSIM, QGIS and
software packaging), and also for like-minded geospatial projects
(OpenStreetMap, pgRouting, istSOS, uDig/GeoTools). More details on
Melange homepage:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2013/osgeo
and on OSGeo Wiki: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013

We would like to thank all students, mentors, comentors and
coordinators who contributed to this success, and to Google for
managing and sponsoring the program. Along the years, many students had
the possibility to contribute to open source geospatial projects.
Several of them joined the developer team after GSoC, and took part to
subsequent editions as mentors. The diversity of OSGeo-hosted projects,
in size, programming language, age and mentor availability make OSGeo
participation a lively patchwork, that is mirrored below, in the list
of 2013 achievements:

Adding Voronoi Diagrams to GEOS - Vishal Tiwari, mentored by Sandro
Santilli http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/Reports and
https://github.com/vishaltiwari/libgeos

GRASS GIS Interactive Scatter Plot Tool - Stepan Turek, mentored by
Martin Landa
http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GSoC_2013_GRASS_GIS_Interactive_Scatter_Plot_Tool

Temporal GIS Algebra for raster and vector data in GRASS - Thomas
Leppert, mentored by Sören Gebbert
http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GSoC_2013_Temporal_GIS_Algebra_for_raster_and_vector_data_in_GRASS

Create a title block from the library in the Layout of gvSIG - Violeta
Carlos, mentored by Vicente Caballero
https://code.google.com/p/org-gvsig-titleblock/

Add Raster Format to scripting in gvSIG - Sandeep Kumar, mentored by
Joaquín del Cerro https://github.com/sandeep2357/gvSIG-GSoC

Design and implement an API for tiled vectorial support of POIProxy for
gvSIG Mini - Arturo Argiles, mentored by Alberto Romeu
https://confluence.prodevelop.es/display/GVMN/Design+and+implement+an+API+for+tiled+vectorial+support+of+POIProxy

Profile dataset support for istSOS - Francesco Massa, mentored by
Massimiliano Cannata https://code.google.com/p/istsos/wiki/GSoC_ideas

ScribeUI: A GUI and tools for MapServer mapfile editing - Jessica
Lapointe, mentored by Julien-Samuel Lacroix
http://mapgears.github.io/scribeui-site/

Support for UTFGrid output in MapServer - François Desjarlais, mentored
by Daniel Morissette
http://msgsoc.mapgears.com/html/en/output/utfgrid.html

Object based Image Fusion and Change Detection tools for Opticks -
Mohit Kumar, mentored by Trevor Clarke
http://opticks.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9372446

Extend OSGeo4W Installer - Steve Ataucuri Cruz, mentored by Frank
Warmerdam https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/GSoC

Creating a stable and improved OpenTripPlanner Android client for walk,
bike, and  transit routing based on OpenStreetMap and GTFS data -
Vreixo Gonzáles, mentored by Stefan Steiniger
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/soc/2013-September/002451.html (final
report)

Surveying mobile application for OpenStreetMap mappers (Field
Papers-like) - Pavel Melnikov, mentored by Ilya Zverev
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/OpenSurveyor

OSM: Cached API proxy - Paul Norman, mentored by Ian Dees
https://github.com/pnorman/openstreetmap-cgimap

Oceanography Circulatory model using PyOSSIM and PlanetSasha for OSSIM
- Mohamed Rashad, mentored by Massimo di Stefano
https://github.com/rashadkm/planetsasha/wiki

Enhancements to the DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS packages and repositories -
Jérôme Laroouche, mentored by Alan Boudreault
https://scm.mapgears.com/packages/debian/

Implementation of VRP Solution in pgRouting - Khondoker Md. Razequl
Islam, mentored by Daniel Kastl
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/Gsoc-2013-Razequl-Islam

A partitioned approach to on demand increment graph assembly for
pgRouting - Mukul Priya, mentored by Stephen Woodbridge
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/Gsoc-2013-Mukul-Priya

Repository and Tool for Resource Sharing in QGIS - Arunmozhi, mentored
by Nathan Woodrow
https://github.com/tecoholic/qgis-django/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2013

Hydrologically controlled shallow landslides - a statistical
forecasting algorithm for the uDig Spatial Toolbox - Marco Foi,
mentored by Andrea Antonello
https://bitbucket.org/mcfoi/jgrasstool-cislam/overview

Java Surface Model Library/API For GeoTools - Julian Padilla, mentored
by Andrea Aime
https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/surveyos/trunk/java/sandbox/jtin_v2/

Looking forward for GSoC 2014 - in the meanwhile, happy mapping!

Anne Ghisla, Hamish Bowman, Dustan Adkins
OSGeo GSoC Admin team
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