[pgrouting-dev] Newbie to OSGeo

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 1/31/2014 11:11 AM, Umang Goel wrote:
> Hi,
> I would be applying for GSOC this year, so while going through last year's
> page I came across your organization and found it interesting to work with.
> I'd gone through the skills required and I had a basic idea of all the
> platforms required. I'd recently worked with osm in one of my academic
> project and implemented a simple off-line routing platform independent app
> for my college. While going through the ideas page I saw various search and
> flow algorithms that are needed to be implemented. I also have basic idea
> of tabu search and astar search. So I strongly feel that I would be able to
> contribute well to this organization.
> As I'm new to this organization I would like to get familiar with the code
> base and know how things are implemented and how things work so that I'm in
> a position to add or improve something.Also as I'm new to postgresql and
> pgrouter, I would need guidance to setup the project on my machine and would
> like to get familiar with these technologies.
> Any help would be of great importance for me at this point of time. Looking
> forward for a reply.

Hi Umang,

Thank you for your interest in OSGeo and pgRouting.

You can look at:
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/Developer---Getting-Started

and the other links here:
https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki
http://pgrouting.org/ -- look at the user docs and the new workshop

You can also look at the current open issues and potentially pick one to 
try and resolve as a way to get started. If you want some help picking 
an issue let us know.

We welcome students and developer that want to get involved with 
pgRouting. Most of us work on this because we love the project and 
devote a lot of free time to support it.

Best regards,
   -Steve