[QGIS-Developer] Self Introduction and College Capstone Project Questions

[Kyoungduk Park]

Thank y'all so much for the inputs. This is honestly my first time ever
reaching out to an open source community as a developer and I am grateful I
did. I will discuss the topics with my professor, but regardless of if it
gets approved or not, I am willing to work on the 3D improvements for QGIS
whatsoever - sounds like a lot of fun.

Andreas and Ismail: thank you again for the suggestions and referring to
the people:)
Tim and Nyall: would it be okay for me to reach out for a bit of guidance
in the very near future?

Best,
Eric Park

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 6:41 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 08:52, Kyoungduk Park <kyoungdukp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Howdy Andreas,
> >
> > Thank you much for getting back to me so quickly. I am currently on the
> learning curve, trying to get myself familiar to the entire software. It
> will probably take a bit of time for me to go over most features in the
> program.
> >
> > From the topics you've listed, the 3D project definitely interests me a
> lot, since I've been practicing and programming computer graphics project
> using OpenGL for the past couple of months. On that note, if you or anybody
> can advise or guide me sporadically throughout the year, that would be very
> much appreciated. Please let me know about it. Thank you so much again!
>
> I'd say a GREAT project would be adding support for point cloud data
> to QGIS + QGIS 3D. It'd be a lot of fun, you'd get to know a lot of
> useful libraries (like PDAL), you'd learn a lot about hot-topic
> technology, and you'd learn a lot about the internals of how QGIS (and
> other GIS) work. And you'd be adding a feature which is highly
> desirable to a huge number of QGIS users.
>
> Nyall
>
>
> >
> > Best,
> > Eric Park
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:19 AM Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Eric,
> >>
> >> Thanks for reaching out about your college project.
> >>
> >> I am not a core developer but a contributor and power user.
> >>
> >> We normally have GSoC project almost every year, but I guess your setup
> would also work well. I am positive that we can find a mentor (project
> sponsor) to help you get started and for occasional support. But the
> potential mentor probably depends a bit on the area of code you are working
> on.
> >>
> >> Are you familiar with QGIS as a user?
> >>
> >> Areas in QGIS that would benefit from developer attention, are:
> >>
> >> - 3D (e.g. proper highlighting for feature identification and better
> integration with 2D (e.g. show camera position in 2D, allow reposition of
> camera in 2D))
> >>
> >> - Creating a 3D model sharing repository
> >>
> >> - Processing, incl. the graphical model builder
> >>
> >> - ETL functionality in Processing
> >>
> >> - Integrating the QGIS time manager plugin in QGIS core
> >>
> >> - the Report builder (e.g. create a preview mode for reports)
> >>
> >> - the Georeferencer (support for georeferencing vector features)
> >>
> >> These are just some ideas ... of course it depends on your interests,
> skills and more.
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >>
> >> On 2019-09-10 02:13, Kyoungduk Park wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear QGIS Developers,
> >>
> >> Please forgive me if this is not the best way to reach out to y'all,
> and please do let me know if so.
> >>
> >> I am a current college senior majoring in CS at Tufts University,
> located near Boston, USA. For my engineering degree, I need to complete a
> year-long senior capstone project. Now, I am a huge fan of free software
> and maps, and I have been programming for the past two years on
> C/C++/Python. I stumbled upon QGIS upon searching possible projects, and
> have been thinking wildly about devoting my last school year to
> contributing to its development. I have been fiddling around with QGIS for
> the past couple of days, and will take a couple more until I get the basic
> hang of it.
> >>
> >> I currently have a team of a couple of CS students including myself, an
> applied math major student, and might possibly have a human factors
> engineering student. The only caveat right now is that we need a project
> "sponsor" who would simply have to communicate with my team and give
> feedbacks/guidance.
> >>
> >> We would really appreciate if anyone can suggest a cool year-long
> project/idea, while we also would be searching for our own. More
> importantly, is there anyone who can possibly be our project sponsor?
> Please let me know if so. Thank you for your time.
> >>
> >> With best regards,
> >> Eric Park
> >>
> >>
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