[Mapbender-dev] GSoC 2010 Project - RESTful API for Mapbender [RFC]

[Astrid Emde]

Hello Vikash,

welcome to the Mapbender project and a good Summer of Code for you.

All the best for your exams and see you after May 6th.

Astrid


On Mon, April 26, 2010 8:48 pm, Vikash Banjara wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Thanks to all of you.
> I am officially accepted for the GSoC 2010. I will work on "Restful API
> for Mapbender".
>
>
> P.S.: I will not be available before 6th May, because of exams at the
> university. I will start soon after the exams are over.
>
> Regards
> Vikash
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Vikash Banjara
> <vikashbanjara at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>> Seven,
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions. I have made proper changes to the
>> application. You can check out once again.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf)
>> <seven at arnulf.us>wrote:
>>
>>
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>>> Vikash Banjara wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello devs,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have submitted my proposal for GSoC 2010 project - RESTful API
>>>> for Mapbender at http://socghop.appspot.com under the Organization
>>>> OSGeo.
>>>> Please  go through the proposal and suggest me changes. I still have
>>>>
>>> time
>>>> till 9th April 2010 to edit the proposal. I will be really grateful
>>>> to
>>> you
>>>> people for reviewing the application.
>>>>
>>>> Anticipating response,
>>>> Regards
>>>> Vikash
>>>>
>>>
>>> Vikash,
>>> thank you for submitting the proposal. Before submitting my comments
>>> to the GSoC site please consider the following details:
>>>
>>> I have a question and suggestion wrt the work plan. Why do you want
>>> to first implement the client side request of the API and then the
>>> server side?
>>>
>>> I was wrong when I said that client side should be designed first.
>>> Logical
>>>
>> thing will be to design the server side processing.
>>
>> Regards
>> Vikash
>>
>>
>>
>>> We should also clean out terminology, what is the client side and
>>> what is the server side, what is the back end. We could add this as a
>>> work package to the first three week design period.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> After GSoC starts - First three weeks -
>>>
>>>
>>> Add:
>>> ... "Update the Glossary of the project to describe the use of the
>>> terms "client", "server", "back end", "application", etc. in the
>>> context of the project"
>>>
>>> +++
>>>
>>>
>>> After first three weeks to Mid-term -
>>>
>>>
>>> Add:
>>> ... "We will use a test driven development method and follow the Scrum
>>>  process with daily scrums (as the availability of mentor and student
>>>  will allow).
>>>
>>> +++
>>> Please consider answering for this question:
>>>
>>>
>>> "How does your SoC task benefit the OSGeo member project, and more
>>> generally the OSGeo Foundation as a whole?"
>>>
>>> Suggestion:
>>> "The REST-API project will make it easier to integrate Mapbender with
>>> other projects. It will also allow machine access to the management
>>> back end data and improve the use of the project as centralized
>>> management back end for spatial data infrastructures. This will
>>> further improve the USP of the project."
>>>
>>>
>>> +++
>>>
>>>
>>> "Please provide details of previous GIS experience"
>>>
>>>
>>> I suggest you say: "None". This will not be a problem for us (as you
>>> already say further down). The project and tasks involved do not
>>> require you to have up front knowledge of GIS.
>>>
>>> +++
>>>
>>>
>>> I will talk over the proposal with Christoph but as far as I am
>>> concerned this is already a good proposal. I am happy with it.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Arnulf.
>>>
>>>
>>> - --
>>> Arnulf Christl
>>>
>>>
>>> Exploring Space, Time and Mind
>>> http://arnulf.us
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