[josm-dev] Google Summer of Code - 3 JOSM related projects accepted

[Paul Hartmann]

Hi,

the accepted students for this year's GSoC have been officially 
announced [1]. Congratulations to everyone who made it!

Out of the 8 OpenStreetMap projects, 3 are directly related to JOSM:

* Jorge López will create a Mapillary plugin (so we should be catching 
up with iD now ;) - mentor: Polyglot)
* Vadim Varnavsky will implement image filters for TMS/WMS-layers (like 
brightness, contrast, sharpen; mentor: Dmitry Kiselev)
* Michael Zangl is going to speed up the drawing of the main map area in 
JOSM by using the OpenGL interface for hardware-accelerated rendering 
(mentor: myself)

These are really exciting projects and I will be looking forward to the 
results!

[1] 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2015/AcceptedProjects>

Paul