[OpenLayers-Users] Google Summer of Code ideas?

[Chris Holmes]

Awhile ago I talked to some Dojo people and mentioned OpenLayers and 
they were interested in having it packaged as a Dojo widget.  If there's 
someone who'd be willing to do that work and maintain it I can get in 
touch with them again.  The maintenance should be pretty minimal I'd 
imagine, and it would probably be some good exposure, and would be a 
start towards app widgets.

Chris

John R. Frank wrote:
> 
> I'd like to see more application layer components.  While there are many
> JS toolkits for making menus and draggable subwindows and such, there are
> a few specific things that would be nice to have a *modular* set of
> *tested* components that were designed to work on top of the OL core
> library.  I'm thinking of things like multiple maps in little windows that
> drag around, big toolbars with cool features, fancy layer selecters,
> windows that can float on the map holding different things, tree-based
> layer selection, symbol pallettes that allow drag-on-to-the-map, etc.
> 
> Having a few choices for these "app widgets," built with different
> toolkits, like DoJo, Scriptaculous, Yahoo Widgets, etc, would be nice for
> several reasons.  We could then see which widgets get traction in
> discussions, patches, sandboxes.  This would community collaboratively
> figure out useful approaches to using the library.  Most importantly, we
> would establish the idea that app-layer widgets should also be shared as
> OS.
> 
> An intern could make a big dent in this project.  The interns' work would
> be outside the core library, so they'd be able to operate independently.
> We're well setup to have interns hacking in sandboxes.  I can easily
> layout four person-months of projects of this type, and with everyone
> else's help, we could describe two or three times that :)
> 
> John
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Chris Holmes
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