[Qgis-developer] Call for mentors

[Even Rouault]

Le jeudi 13 février 2014 21:04:31, Larry Shaffer a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Alexander Bruy
> 
> <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>wrote:
> > Hi devs,
> > 
> > GSoC applications period for mentoring organizations will close soon
> > (about 24 hours).
> > 
> > We already have ideas page [0]. But most ideas have no mentors.
> > It would be great if developers interested in particular project indicate
> > that they are available to mentor.
> > 
> > Currently we have only two ideas with possible mentors:
> >  - LiDAR data support in QGIS (Martin Isenburg)
> >  - OSM download & style (Paolo Cavallini)
> 
> I added myself as a possible co-mentor for a newly added entry for
> implementing the brand-spanking-new GeoPackage [0] support across QGIS. I
> am not a student (for a long time now) so I can't offer to do the coding as
> part of GSoC.
> 
> Anyone looking for a very worthy summer project might consider adopting
> this work.
> 
> I think my ability to mentor a new provider roll out might be
> underwhelming; so, if someone does decide to adopt the work, it would
> probably need a co-mentor with more experience in that part of QGIS.
> 
> [0] http://www.geopackage.org/

Note that Paul Ramsey has implemented the vector part of the GeoPackage 
specification in the dev version of OGR : 
http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_geopackage.html

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Larry
> 
> > [0] https://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014
> > 
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Alexander Bruy
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