GRASS SoC Ideas 2009

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About

This is the GRASS page for Google Summer of Code 2009. Here we will list project ideas and and other information related to the GRASS GSoC projects.

Promotion:

  OSGeo Flyer at http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/
  Videos at      http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/Videos
  More Flyers at http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers

Timeline

(GSoC timeline)

  • Community bonding time (getting to know the students)
  • Deadline for student's applications (April 3rd)
  • Accepted proposals announced (April 20th)
  • Work Begins (May 23th)
  • Midterm evaluation (July 6th-13th)
  • Pencils down! (August 10th-17th)

Required Steps

  • List ideas
  • Assign Mentors to Ideas
  • Notify OSGeo
  • Mentors evaluate student applications (Deadline April 3rd)
  • April 20st: Accepted students announced
  • Students subscribe to the grass-dev mailing list and introduce themselves
  • Create directory structure in the GRASS add-ons SVN for projects and setup access for students
    • Students must read and post agreement to RFC2 to the grass-psc mailing list to gain SVN access
    • Create a Wiki page for each accepted project, to be used as a progress reporting tool
  • Coding begins...
  • Students and mentors: Complete the Mid-term survey
  • Final commit and packaging for Google

Ideas

See also ideas from 2008.

wxGUI

  • Continue in wxNviz development.

Raster

  • implement openMP as much as possible

Vector

  • implement openMP as much as possible
  • Rewrite v.select to implement more spatial operators (currently only "overlap" is available) - see [1].
Probably merge v.select with v.overlay.
--HB: I'm not so sure that a merge is justified; they perform two conceptually different tasks. A full-summer project would probably require more than this one task

Guidelines for Students

How do you maximize your chances of getting picked? First read the Google SoC FAQ. Then talk to us about your idea. Try emailing our dev-mailing list, or come and talk to us in IRC (#grass). You can also reach the mentors directly by emailing:

  • Wolf Bergenheim (wolf+grass@bergenheim.net)

Getting started with GRASS coding

  • The source code is maintained in a SVN server which is easy to browse
Please review the SUBMITTING files there.
See also the development section of the GRASS user's wiki

Accepted Ideas