[SoC] OSgeo GSoC - Introduction

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi Carol, great that you think about joining OSGeo for GSoC 2012, I did 
it last year and it was a great experience. Regarding your skills, I 
think the most important one is your attitude, if you are open and not 
scared of getting your hands dirty than you _will_ learn a lot. I 
started off with no knowledge of android, little java, some c++ and 
ended up porting QGIS to Android.

I saw that QGIS mobile is the first project of your list. If you have 
any question about it, don't hesitate asking, I'll be glad to help (and 
mentor).
I’m actually thinking of setting up the bases for this proj shortly.

ciao
Marco

On 03/25/2012 12:03 AM, Carol Hansen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Carol Hansen, a Computer Science student in Chicago,
> finishing up my senior year. I will be applying for Google Summer of
> Code 2012, and I was so excited to see OSGeo as one of the participating
> organizations. Primarily, I am interested in applying my degree to GIS.
> As far as my skills and background, I am familiar with Java (currently
> taking a server-side course and coding Java Servlets and JSPs), Ecplise
> and RAD, HTML/CSS, SQL, tiny bit of Python (going over basic scripting
> in my web-GIS course this semester), ArcGIS, GRASS, and Google Earth.
>
> There are a number of projects I am interested in contributing to,
> particularly with
>
> QuantumGIS and uDIG, but I am having difficulty deciphering which ones I
> am best suited for based on my background. I admit some of the Project
> suggestions went a little over my head, but they involve technologies I
> would love to become familiar with.
>
> Here are a few of the projects I am interested in...Any suggestions?
>
> *QGIS Projects:*
>
>   * QGIS for mobile phone devices
>   * QGIS tool for vector data merging
>   * Scripting: Make QGIS scriptable, in order to be able to do
>     reperitive tasks with a simple scripting language. Qt includes a
>     built in scripting interface based on ECMA standards for making
>     applications scriptable.
>   * Database Manager: Integrate PostGIS Manager, SpatiaLite Manager,
>     RtSqlLayer and other related plugins to create a multi-db manager
>     easily expandable to manage other spatial DBs.
>
> *uDIG Projects:*
>
>   * Create an OSM editor in uDig that would be the first full GIS based
>     editor (ie. not just a graph editor with background maps)
>   * Support powerful OSM data mining capabilities in uDig and Geotools
>     (perform queries on open street map not currently possible in
>     existing OSM tools, but relatively easy with Neo4j)
>   * Support full set of geospatial operations as in PostGIS
>   * Create a gis general purpose database plugin for uDig with hibernate
>     (also spatial). The plugin would expose extension points to register
>     spatially and nonspatially enabled classes. With such a plugin one
>     would be able to rely on the neo4j database support easily from
>     any udig plugin without having to wonder what database is backing
>     the persistence. Keeping the interfaces clear, it would be fairly
>     easy to allow for seamless connection to neo4j as to postgis.
>   * KML Reader and Writer
>
>
> What would be the next steps to get involved and contribute?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Carol Hansen
>
>
>
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