[SoC] MapGuide Ideas

[Alex Mandel]

On 03/20/2010 05:48 PM, Rohit Razdan wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> I am a Geoinformatics Major, and my introduction to osgeo is through a
> project that I am implementing for my thesis. We are using MapGuide and I
> thought why not do a project to make it better, as a way of giving back to
> the community. But I didn't find a suggested ideas page for MapGuide, in
> this year's or last year's GSoC pages. Documentation on installation was
> pretty thin and outdated, and building the system on my Ubuntu, was a major
> pain. I had to hack through with various roundabout solutions, including
> editing source files.
> Now I would love to do a project for Mapguide. If a mentor, who is involved
> with Mapguide can guide me with some projects that the Mapguide community
> wants done, then that would be great.
> 
> Rohit Razdan
> Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
> 

I'm not sure if MapGuide has a page for GSOC, the best place to ask
would probably be on their developer mailing list.
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-internals

I wonder if building a debian/ubuntu package to make MapGuide easily
installable could be part of your project, with some documentation?

Thanks,
Alex