[gdal-dev] Questions about projects of GSoC 2009

[Mateusz Loskot]

Jorge Arévalo wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm interesed in these projects:
> - PNG Driver
> - WMTS implementation
> - WKT Raster Driver

Great!

> I would like to know a little more about them.

Do you have any specific questions or concerns?

> Basically, their estimated difficulty.

Difficulty is a subjective thing.
What is difficult to me, might be easy to you, so estimation
may be lead misleading.

> I'm very exciting about the possibility of being one of the selected
> OSGeo students for GSoC 2009, but I think that I need to be realistic
> and totally comitted with the project. I'm making a schedule, and I
> would like to know if all projects fit into it.

And, what's your schedule?

> For example, the last
> two projects seem to be longer that the first one, but maybe I'm
> wrong.

Exactly, "seem" is the right word.

We don't know what's your experience and what you consider as
easy/difficult. So, it's very hard to help you in making your
decision unless you have specific / technical questions.

Remember, that GSoC projects are not managed in the commercial way.
It's you and mentor who agree that a project is completed or not.
See Q9 and Q10:

http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_use_code

So, I'd not worry much about making a very detailed timeline plan.

For instance WKT Raster driver, as I mentioned in the proposal, the idea
is to develop a *prototype*, something that proofs (or not) the concept
is feasible and implementation may perform well, something that will be
helpful and usable for further development.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org