Hello all,<br><br>I have been working with QGIS development for quiet sometime, and I hope most of you know me for doing the Heatmap plugin.<br><br>I think its time I announce I am pitching for GSOC this year. I have gone through the ideas in the ideas[1] page and have been performing some analysis myself and documenting[2] them to identify the areas where improvement could be done. Though there are many areas where functionality could be improved, I think increasing the analytical ability of the package packs more power.<br>
<br>A good step as discussed earlier[3] is to convert the fTools plugin to C++ and expand the API and improve the scriptability. Along the same lines is the Processing Framework[4] which would provide the interface between QGIS and various other external tools and libraries. This again is still in Python. Expanding the framework would be good, but again I think, converting it to the native language (C++) would make it more useful.<br>
<br>Both of these two would help in improve the analytical capability of the software and provide a way to build more upon them.<br><br>I think I would go by popular vote from the other developers here.<br><br>Kindly help me decide in which direction to go, so I can apply.<br>
<br>[1] <a href="http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012">http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012</a><br clear="all">[2] <a href="http://www.arunmozhi.in/category/tech/qgis/">http://www.arunmozhi.in/category/tech/qgis/</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2012-February/018441.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2012-February/018441.html</a><br>[4] <a href="https://github.com/polymeris/qgis/wiki">https://github.com/polymeris/qgis/wiki</a><br>
<br>-- <br>Regards<br>Arunmozhi<br>Twitter: @tecoholic<br>Website: <a href="http://arunmozhi.in" target="_blank">http://arunmozhi.in</a><br>IRC Nick: teco<br><br>