Hi Carol,<div>next step would be to subscribe to the mailinglists of the projects, present yourself there and start a discussion about the projects you are interested in. I am sure that mentors interested will join you in the discussion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Andrea<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Carol Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carolbhansen@gmail.com">carolbhansen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Hello,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">My name is Carol
Hansen, a Computer Science student in Chicago,
finishing up my senior year. I will be applying for Google Summer of Code
2012, and I was so excited to see OSGeo as one of the participating
organizations. Primarily, I am interested in applying my degree to GIS. As far
as my skills and background, I am familiar with Java (currently taking a
server-side course and coding Java Servlets and JSPs), Ecplise and RAD, HTML/CSS,
SQL, tiny bit of Python (going over basic scripting in my web-GIS course
this semester), ArcGIS, GRASS, and Google Earth. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">There are a
number of projects I am interested in contributing to, particularly with </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">QuantumGIS and
uDIG, but I am having difficulty deciphering which ones I am best suited
for based on my background. I admit some of the Project suggestions went a
little over my head, but they involve technologies I would love to become
familiar with. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Here are a few
of the projects I am interested in...Any suggestions?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>QGIS Projects:</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial">QGIS for
mobile phone devices</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">QGIS tool for
vector data merging</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Scripting:
Make QGIS scriptable, in order to be able to do reperitive tasks with a
simple scripting language. Qt includes a built in scripting interface
based on ECMA standards for making applications scriptable.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Database
Manager: Integrate PostGIS Manager, SpatiaLite Manager, RtSqlLayer and
other related plugins to create a multi-db manager easily expandable to
manage other spatial DBs.</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>uDIG Projects:</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Create an OSM
editor in uDig that would be the first full GIS based editor (ie. not just
a graph editor with background maps)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Support
powerful OSM data mining capabilities in uDig and Geotools (perform queries on
open street map not currently possible in existing OSM tools, but
relatively easy with Neo4j)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Support full
set of geospatial operations as in PostGIS </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">Create a gis
general purpose database plugin for uDig with hibernate (also spatial).
The plugin would expose extension points to register spatially and
nonspatially enabled classes. With such a plugin one would be able to rely
on the neo4j database support easily from any udig plugin without having
to wonder what database is backing the persistence. Keeping the interfaces
clear, it would be fairly easy to allow for seamless connection to neo4j as to postgis.</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial">KML Reader and
Writer</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><br></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">What would be
the next steps to get involved and contribute?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Thank you!</span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Carol Hansen</span></p>
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