<div dir="ltr"><div>Ladies and Gentlemen of the Geospatial Community,</div><div><br></div><div>OSGeo is glad to welcome the 13 accepted students and their mentors for OSGeo GSoC 2015!</div><div><br></div><div>We received 37 proposals from a variety of geospatial projects. Despite the lower total number of proposals received compared to former years, the overall quality was high, so our choice has been a difficult task. Eventually we appointed the following proposals:</div><div><br></div><div>1) GDAL: Faza Mahamood - Integration of GDAL utilities into GDAL core library</div><div>2) GRASS GIS: Matej Krejci - Improved Metadata for GRASS</div><div>3) gvSIG: Eva Rodríguez - Port Network Analysis Extension to gvSIG 2.x branch</div><div>4) istSOS: Ambrosini Luca - Scalability for Big data processing for istSOS</div><div>5) JGRASSTOOLS: Silvia Franceschi - Development of a simple 1D hydraulic model for JGRASSTOOLS</div><div>6) MapServer: Samuel Lapointe - Add productivity tools to MapServer's ScribeUI</div><div>7) Opticks: Tom Van den Eynde - Image Enhancement/Background Suppression for Opticks</div><div>8) OTP: Nipuna Gunathilake - GTFS-Realtime validation tool for Open Trip Planner</div><div>9) OSGeo-Live: Massimo Di Stefano - Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks</div><div>10) OSSIM: Martina Di Rita - OSSIM tool for DSM generation using tri-stereo and SAR imagery</div><div>11) pgRouting: Sarthak Agarwal - New osm2pgrouting import tool to import OpenStreetMap(OSM)data in pgRouting</div><div>12) PyWPS: Calin Ciociu - REST interface for PyWPS 4</div><div>13) QGIS: Marcus Santos - Multithread support on QGIS Processing toolbox</div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations to all accepted students!</div><div><br></div><div>We are proud of the geographical variety of countries from which our students come from and live, including: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, India, Italy, Luxemburg, Portugal, Spain and Sri Lanka.</div><div>The list of software projects includes OSGeo (official and incubating) and like-minded projects - let GSoC be a "gathering of tribes", an occasion to improve communication among all geospatial open source initiatives.</div><div><br></div><div>See the list of OSGeo accepted proposals also here:</div><div><a href="https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/osgeo">https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/osgeo</a></div><div>We wish all students and mentors a great summer!</div><div><br></div><div>Madi and Anne</div><div>OSGeo GSoC Admins 2015</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#666666">Best regards,</font></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Dr. Margherita DI LEO </font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial;font-size:small">Scientific / technical project officer</span><br></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">European Commission - DG JRC </font></div><div><font color="#666666">Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)</font></div><div><font color="#666666">Via Fermi, 2749</font></div><div><font color="#666666">I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261</font></div><div><font color="#666666"> </font></div><div><font color="#666666">Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 </font></div><div><font color="#666666"><a href="mailto:margherita.di-leo@jrc.ec.europa.eu" target="_blank">margherita.di-leo@jrc.ec.europa.eu</a></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#666666">Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.</font></div></div></div>
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