[QGIS-Developer] Self Introduction and College Capstone Project Questions

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 08:52, Kyoungduk Park <kyoungdukp at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Howdy Andreas,
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> Thank you much for getting back to me so quickly. I am currently on the learning curve, trying to get myself familiar to the entire software. It will probably take a bit of time for me to go over most features in the program.
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> From the topics you've listed, the 3D project definitely interests me a lot, since I've been practicing and programming computer graphics project using OpenGL for the past couple of months. On that note, if you or anybody can advise or guide me sporadically throughout the year, that would be very much appreciated. Please let me know about it. Thank you so much again!

I'd say a GREAT project would be adding support for point cloud data
to QGIS + QGIS 3D. It'd be a lot of fun, you'd get to know a lot of
useful libraries (like PDAL), you'd learn a lot about hot-topic
technology, and you'd learn a lot about the internals of how QGIS (and
other GIS) work. And you'd be adding a feature which is highly
desirable to a huge number of QGIS users.

Nyall


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> Best,
> Eric Park
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> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:19 AM Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
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>> Hi Eric,
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>> Thanks for reaching out about your college project.
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>> I am not a core developer but a contributor and power user.
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>> We normally have GSoC project almost every year, but I guess your setup would also work well. I am positive that we can find a mentor (project sponsor) to help you get started and for occasional support. But the potential mentor probably depends a bit on the area of code you are working on.
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>> Are you familiar with QGIS as a user?
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>> Areas in QGIS that would benefit from developer attention, are:
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>> - 3D (e.g. proper highlighting for feature identification and better integration with 2D (e.g. show camera position in 2D, allow reposition of camera in 2D))
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>> - Creating a 3D model sharing repository
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>> - Processing, incl. the graphical model builder
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>> - ETL functionality in Processing
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>> - Integrating the QGIS time manager plugin in QGIS core
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>> - the Report builder (e.g. create a preview mode for reports)
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>> - the Georeferencer (support for georeferencing vector features)
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>> These are just some ideas ... of course it depends on your interests, skills and more.
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>> Greetings,
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>> Andreas
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>> On 2019-09-10 02:13, Kyoungduk Park wrote:
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>> Dear QGIS Developers,
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>> Please forgive me if this is not the best way to reach out to y'all, and please do let me know if so.
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>> I am a current college senior majoring in CS at Tufts University, located near Boston, USA. For my engineering degree, I need to complete a year-long senior capstone project. Now, I am a huge fan of free software and maps, and I have been programming for the past two years on C/C++/Python. I stumbled upon QGIS upon searching possible projects, and have been thinking wildly about devoting my last school year to contributing to its development. I have been fiddling around with QGIS for the past couple of days, and will take a couple more until I get the basic hang of it.
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>> I currently have a team of a couple of CS students including myself, an applied math major student, and might possibly have a human factors engineering student. The only caveat right now is that we need a project "sponsor" who would simply have to communicate with my team and give feedbacks/guidance.
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>> We would really appreciate if anyone can suggest a cool year-long project/idea, while we also would be searching for our own. More importantly, is there anyone who can possibly be our project sponsor? Please let me know if so. Thank you for your time.
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>> With best regards,
>> Eric Park
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