[OSM-talk] Google Summer of Code

[Graham Jones]

Hi All,
Thank you to those who have suggested ideas for GSoC projects on the ideas
wiki page <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2012>.

I would encourage everyone to have a look at the ideas and comment on them
so that we can develop them to make it easier for potential students to
understand what is involved, and add any other suggestions too - maybe use
the discussion wiki page if the comment is more than a simple one line one,
or discuss it on this, or the dev mailing list if more significant?

There are a couple that are to do with HTML renderers.   We actually had a
previous GSoC project that made a lot of good progress on this a couple of
years ago (https://github.com/mdaines/simple-map-editor).   This is one
that I feel bad about because I have not taken it on after GSoC (I always
intended to incorporate it into one of my 'speciality' maps of historic
features etc...), but I think it has all of the basics of a simple editor
there (including Oauth authentication), so there is scope to have a nice
project to develop the user interface to turn it into a finished product.
It would be good to expand on the proposals there to clarify that this is
to build on an existing project, not start from scratch, and to help
identify the scope of the project (ie is it going to allow editing of
geometry or just adding nodes and editing tags on other features?).

The ideas list is taking shape nicely, so I have submitted a draft
application on behalf of OSM, which points to the ideas page, but there is
still time to work on the ideas before the Google (and if we
are successful, potential students) start to look at it.

Please let me know if you are interested in acting as a mentor, and in
helping to choose which student applications are successful if OSM is
selected to participate this year - I can provide more details of what is
involved.

Regards


Graham.
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Graham Jones
Hartlepool, UK.
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