[OpenLayers-Users] Google Summer of Code ideas?

[Tim Langlois]

We are implementing our applications using JSF
(http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/) for our front-end
components.  One of our goals is to create JSF components that
encapsulate OpenLayers, so page designers can just drop them into a page
along with other web components.
 
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 18:21 -0500, Chris Holmes wrote:
> 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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