[mapserver-dev] GSoC Project - ScribeUI: A mapfile editor

[Jessica Lapointe]

Hi list,
I am Jessica, and I am very pleased to have been accepted as a GSoC student.
I'm looking forward to work with this community !
Jessica


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Julien-Samuel Lacroix <
jlacroix at mapgears.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are pleased to announce that MapServer got 2 project accepted for the
> Google Summer of Code. This first one is ScribeUI: A GUI and tools for
> MapServer mapfile editing [1]. ScribeUI (name subject to change) is a
> mapfile management GUI that works both locally or remotely. This tool aims
> to make it easier for beginners to start with MapServer and to be a
> productivity tool for power-users. It will of course provide a nice mapfile
> editor with autocompletion, meaningful error messages and color swatches.
> In the future, the tool could be extended to manage MapCache tile
> generation, test SQL queries or even deploy sites.
>
> You can see the first mockups here:
>
>  http://mapgears.github.io/**scribeui-site/<http://mapgears.github.io/scribeui-site/>
>
> ScribeUI will support the mapfile syntax as well as the Basemaps [1] and
> Scribe syntax [2]. It will also feature a workspace manager that will
> enable the user to group mapfiles per project and the ability to run on a
> server to make things easier when working remotly.
>
> About the student:
>
> Jessica is an entrepreneur. Despite her young age, she already shines at
> the international level (just like Mapgears!) with her font production
> business: CuttyFruty?.com. She developed her interest for font sets when
> she was 13, and today, her fonts are being used by big names such as Lise
> Wathier, Barbie, Microsoft and Rihanna. (Read more here.)
>
> Even if her first start-up was very artsy, Jessica also has a passion for
> software and web development, and she will actually represent Canada at the
> World Skills competition this July. She is in the process of completing a
> bachelor's degree in computer science, and it is as a software developer
> that she joins the project. We are already looking forward to what her
> exceptional combination of artistic and programming skills will bring to
> the MapServer project.
>
> [1] http://www.google-melange.com/**gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/**
> jlapointe/4001<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/jlapointe/4001>
> [2]  https://github.com/mapserver/**basemaps<https://github.com/mapserver/basemaps>
> [3]  http://www.mapgears.com/en/**blog/archive/2013-03-12-scribe<http://www.mapgears.com/en/blog/archive/2013-03-12-scribe>
> [4]  http://www.worldskills.org/
>
> Stay tune for the initial release!
>
> Julien
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> Julien-Samuel Lacroix
> Mapgears
> http://www.mapgears.com/
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