[GRASS-dev] Summer of Code is upon us

[Hamish]

Hi,

as Anne noted in her Hello World message*, the Summer of Code has just
begun.  [*] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/soc/2012-May/001734.html


In case you missed the selection efforts, GRASS was funded for 3 projects
this year.


They are:

(see the wiki for detailed links)
   http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_SoC_Ideas_2012#Accepted_Ideas


   1.  Python high level map interaction for GRASS GIS (abstract)

          Student: Pietro Zambelli 
          Mentor: Sören Gebbert 
          Backup mentors: Luca Delucchi, Martin Landa 
          Wiki page: GRASS SoC Ideas 2012/High level map interaction 

H:--- pythonize the grass py libs; the wiki page demonstrates the idea well


   2. GRASS GIS WxGui front end for vector analysis modules (abstract)

          Student: Stepan Turek 
          Mentor: Martin Landa 
          Backup mentor: Markus Metz 
          Wiki page: GRASS GSoC 2012 WxGUI front end for vector analysis modules 

H:--- interactive v.net gui app (d.path^2, dynamically redraw network paths+)


   3. Image Segmentation in GRASS GIS (abstract)

          Student: Eric Momsen 
          Mentor: Markus Metz 
          Backup mentors: Moritz Lennert, Pierre Roudier 
          Wiki page: GRASS GSoC 2012 Image Segmentation 

H:--- advanced image classification & clumping techniques


Please (everyone!) read through the abstracts & proposals and get a
feeling for what's been planned for the next few months. The students
will be posting weekly updates here to keep you informed, but all 3
projects are all ambitious, and all will need all of our help to succeed!
This is not a "consume" exercise, the student does the coding but it's
supposed to be a collaborative process with all of us helping out. The
more we put in to the students, the more we get out of them. do I make
my point? :)


I hope that those meeting for the upcoming Code Sprint can take some time
to go through each of the proposals in a detailed way, and take the
opportunity to discuss the path the student should take/brainstorm as a
group. (No point in them spending all summer working on a project which
has no developer buy-in at the end because we devs communicated poorly
our wants ..)  I'll try to be available via IRC as the GMT+12 timezone &
work allows.


So Stepan, Pietro, and Eric, a big welcome! I hope you have fun here.
There are some really talented coders on this list who know the codebase
top to bottom and can help you out night or day. Any questions just
drop an email or five.


cheers,
Hamish
(OSGeo SoC co-admin)