[SoC] Mentor for MapGuide Open Source

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Good to see you Trevor - glad to have you and MGOS aboard!

Tyler

Trevor Wekel wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I am offering myself as a GSOC mentor for MapGuide Open Source.  I
> have been a developer on the project since its inception and am a
> member of the MapGuide Project Steering Committee.
> 
> My areas of interest are fairly broad and I would be willing to
> mentor most MapGuide-related projects.  My current "hot button"
> interests for MapGuide are:
> 
> Builds and Installs I currently host and help to maintain the build
> machines for MapGuide Open Source.  Our Linux platform support could
> be better.  We currently have no CentOS/Redhat RPMs and do not
> compile with GCC 4.4.  It would be great to get these issues
> addressed.
> 
> User/Group Security Model MapGuide has a good permissions based
> security model which could be used more effectively.  Ideally,
> user/group permissions on layers and data sources should control
> layer visibility on a map.  As an additional enhancement, this scheme
> could be extended to GUI configuration.  In other words, inclusion in
> a specific groups may grant access to additional functionality within
> the GUI.
> 
> If you are interested in doing some MapGuide work for Google Summer
> of Code 2010, please send an email to the mapguide-internals mailing
> list.  I do monitor both lists.  Most of the "technical" stuff goes
> on at mapguide-internals.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Trevor Wekel Principal Consultant | OTX Systems (403) 870-1582 |
> trevor_wekel at otxsystems.com http://www.otxsystems.com
> 
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