[SoC] REST interface for PyWPS

[Calin Ciociu]

Hello everyone,

My name is Calin Ciociu, residing in Luxembourg and currently doing my 
bachelor thesis in Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg 
while working at LIST (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) 
for my intern-ship.
I am developing on PyWPS 4 which is a python implementation of the Web 
Processing Service standard from Open Geospatial Consortium and I intend 
on participating in the GSoC'15 as a student.

I have had no prior involvement with GIS but I got to learn and 
understand and as one of the active developers of PyWPS I want to give 
my proposition suggesting the implementation of a REST interface for 
PyWPS allowing for the following but not limited to:

* The ability for configuration of PyWPS and controlling of running 
processes
* Getting a list of running processes
* Possibility to pause/kill/resume running processes
* Possibility to change configuration (even ideas like deploy multiple 
instances)
* Import new processes into existing instances.

The presentation of my bachelor thesis will be between 08/06/2015 and 
05/07/2015 after which I will have finished my bachelor in Computer 
Science. Other note that might be of use is an absence during July to 
beginning of August of 2 to 3 weeks.

I am mainly using Linux Mint 17.1 with PyCharm as my development 
environment for PyWPS and I am acquainted with Unix systems having set 
up an infrastructure running virtualized Unix and Windows servers like 
web/file/database server at home. Experienced in working with Windows 
7/8.1 and I posses sufficient knowledge in C++, Java, Python, SQL.

I am motivated and ready to participate and be a part of this community.

Best regards,
Calin Ciociu