<div dir="ltr">Hi list,<div>I am Jessica, and I am very pleased to have been accepted as a GSoC student.</div><div>I'm looking forward to work with this community !</div><div style>Jessica</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Julien-Samuel Lacroix <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jlacroix@mapgears.com" target="_blank">jlacroix@mapgears.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hello,<br>
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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.<br>
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You can see the first mockups here:<br>
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<a href="http://mapgears.github.io/scribeui-site/" target="_blank">http://mapgears.github.io/<u></u>scribeui-site/</a><br>
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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.<br>
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About the student:<br>
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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.)<br>
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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.<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/jlapointe/4001" target="_blank">http://www.google-melange.com/<u></u>gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/<u></u>jlapointe/4001</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://github.com/mapserver/basemaps" target="_blank">https://github.com/mapserver/<u></u>basemaps</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://www.mapgears.com/en/blog/archive/2013-03-12-scribe" target="_blank">http://www.mapgears.com/en/<u></u>blog/archive/2013-03-12-scribe</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://www.worldskills.org/" target="_blank">http://www.worldskills.org/</a><br>
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Stay tune for the initial release!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Julien<br>
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Julien-Samuel Lacroix<br>
Mapgears<br>
<a href="http://www.mapgears.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mapgears.com/</a><br>
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