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Google Summer of Code 2014 Ideas

2014-02-12T03:00:16Z

Wiki-Lixingong: /* OSGeo Foundation member projects */

[[Image:GoogleSummer_2014logo.jpg|300px|link=http://code.google.com/soc/]] @ [[Image:OSGeo_300_127_pixel.png|link=http://www.osgeo.org]]

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* Back to the main OSGeo [[Google Summer of Code 2014]] wiki page.

* See also ideas from [[2007_SoC_Merged_Ideas|2007]], [[2008_SoC_Merged_Ideas|2008]], [[Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_Ideas|2009]], [[Google Summer of Code 2010 Ideas|2010]], [[Google Summer of Code 2011 Ideas|2011]], [[Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas|2012]], and [[Google Summer of Code 2013 Ideas|2013]].
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== OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2014 ==

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] would like to extend a welcome to all SoC students. On this page you will find links to a host of ideas organized by project. You will find ideas ranging from the depths of computer science graph theory to the heights of visualization. One thing all these ideas have in common is lots and lots of spatial data.

These ideas are '''*only*''' to motivate you, and serve as example of the kind of hills we want to charge up. Your own ideas are more than welcomed - they are encouraged. We view you as the next wave of open source leaders; show us what you've got.

* '''If you need more information on how to apply you can contact all the mentoring organisations via the OSGeo-SoC mailing list''' ([[#How to get in contact via mailing lists|see below]])

* There is a [http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers Google SoC flyer] to look at and post in appropriate places and [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/google_summer_of_code/OSGeo_GSoC_2013.pdf an OSGeo flavoured one as well].

* Ok, [[OSGeo]] is involved in working with maps and things, but what kind of projects does it really do? Have a look at the [http://planet.osgeo.org/ live blog feed] to see what people are working on right now.

== Important dates ==

* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014 '''The official timeline''']


* February 24: Google announces accepted organizations.
: If OSGeo is accepted as an organization for Google Summer of Code, '''start talking to us earlier rather than later.'''

* March 10: Student applications open.
: The earlier you start the more probable it is that you will be accepted!
: ''There is two way feedback during the application process which really helps you improve and clarify your application before the final deadline. The better your involvement with your potential mentors during this period, the better your chances of being selected.''
* March 21: Student application deadline.
* April 21: '''Accepted student proposals are announced and Community Bonding Period begins.'''
* May 19: '''Coding begins!'''
: (''you may unofficially start a week or two earlier if you know you'll have to take a week or two off during The Summer or you'll be sitting finals in the first week(s) of the program. This must be reflected in your application timeline'')
* June 23: Mid-term evaluation begins
* August 11-18: '''Pencils down!'''
* August 18-22: Final evaluations
* August 22: Students begin submitting required code samples to Google
* August 25: Final results announced

== The ideas pages ==
'''''[Check back often, it's a work in progress]'''''

Each participating project's list of ideas is on the respective projects' wikis, with a short description of the project and what type of students would be interested in it:

=== OSGeo Foundation member projects ===

* ''More coming soon: Get started talking to your favorite project's development team today!''

[[Image:logo-grass.png|60px|right]]
* [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014 '''GRASS GIS''' SoC Ideas]: [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] is an open source GIS focusing on analysis, modeling and visualization. It is a collection of modules written in C and Python and has a GUI written in wxPython. If you know Python, or want to implement algorithms in C, take a look!

[[Image:logo-qgis.png|60px|right]]
* [http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 '''Quantum GIS''' SoC Ideas] Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. It is written in C++ and Python.

      



  

=== Guest projects ===

* ''tbd''


[[Image:Pgrouting-logo.png|60px|right]]
* [https://github.com/pgrouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSOC-Ideas '''pgRouting''' Ideas]: [http://pgrouting.org pgRouting] extends the PostGIS / PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing functionality and more.

* [http://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/projects/gsoc-feature-based-map-algebra '''Feature-based Map Algebra''' SoC Ideas] Map algebra (or cartographic modeling) operations provide powerful tools for analyzing and manipulating geographic data in the raster data model both in commercial and open source GIS software. This project extends these operations to the vector data model and makes them available in PostGIS and QGIS. It will be implemented primarily using the Python programming language.



== Which project do I choose? ==

Most of the software projects are available pre-built on our Live demo { DVD | USB stick | VirtualMachine } with project overviews and short tutorials where you can try everything out.
: View the documents and download the ISO from http://live.osgeo.org
[[File:Osgeolive wordle.png|400px|center]]

== How to get in contact via mailing lists ==

Since OSGeo is an umbrella organisation for multiple projects, each project has their own discussion and development mailing lists.

'''Main OSGeo mailing lists of interest to students:'''
: Please start here, when contacting us for the first time with questions about Google Summer of Code.

:* OSGeo SoC Mentors and Students - soc@lists.osgeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc)
:* OSGeo Wide Discussion List - discuss@lists.osgeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss)

Also see the [[Mailing Lists]] page for project specific lists, as well as the longer list at http://lists.osgeo.org.

== How to get in contact via IRC ==

Primary channel:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo (Web based [http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi IRC client], [http://webchat.freenode.net alternative])

GSoC @ OSGeo inter-project discussions:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-soc

Project irc channels:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gdal
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geoserver
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geotools
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#grass
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gvsig
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapguide
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapnik
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapserver
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#openlayers
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#opticks
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeolive
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#ossimplanet
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#pgrouting-project
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#postgis
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#qgis
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#udig
* irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm-dev

== Application questions we'll ask you ==
'''''[Provisional]'''''

* All questions must be answered, ''no exceptions''. Treat this as something between a formal job application and a scholarship application, because that's exactly what it is.

Name:

Country:

School and degree:

Email:

Phone:

OSGeo project(s):

Title:
(please include the name of the member project as part of
the title, for example: "Gee Whiz Foobar 2001 for QGIS")

Describe your idea
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. The idea
4. Project plan ('''detailed timeline''': how do you plan to spend your summer?)
5. Future ideas / How can your idea be expanded?

Explain how your SoC task would benefit the OSGeo member
project and more generally the OSGeo Foundation as a whole:

Please provide details of general computing experience:
(operating systems you use on a day-to-day basis, languages you
could write a program in, hardware, networking experience, etc.)

Please provide details of previous GIS experience:

Please provide details of any previous involvement with
GIS programming and other software programming:

Please tell us why you are interested in GIS and open
source software:

Please tell us why you are interested in working for OSGeo
and the software project you have selected:

Please tell us why you are interested in your specific
coding project:

Would your application contribute to your ongoing studies/
degree? If so, how?

Please explain how you intend to continue being an active
member of your project and/or OSGeo AFTER the summer is over:

Do you understand this is a serious commitment, equivalent
to a full-time paid summer internship or summer job?

Do you have any known time conflicts during the official coding
period? (May 19 to August 18)

== What to expect during the summer ==

* A group of past GSoC students, mentors, and Googlers have prepared this short book just for you:
: [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/02/flip-bits-not-burgers-student-guide.html Flip bits not Burgers: The Student's Guide to the Summer of Code] -- READ THIS eBOOK

=== Be prepared to be in constant communication with your mentors and project ===

You and your mentors will decide on the specifics, but we will expect you and your mentor to communicate *a lot*. Part of the idea of SoC is to integrate you into the developer community, so you should get involved with them from the start. The more you communicate the easier it will be. Don't be afraid that the mentors will request your phone number. It is only to make sure that we can reach you in case of problems, like making sure you get paid.

University exams and semester terms vary widely, if we know ''in advance'' that you need a week off to study, or that you've already scheduled a short vacation to somewhere off the grid, that's fine and won't count against you. But you need to ''communicate'' this up front so we can make a plan to work around it.

=== Weekly reports ===

Yes, every week we expect to see a report posted to the soc@osgeo mailing list that at least answers the following questions:

# What did you get done this week?
# What do you plan on doing next week?
# Are you blocked on anything?

These questions BTW are the same as are used in real-work, when developing with the
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) Scrum] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development development process]. ;)

If you want, feel free to write *more*. But three sentences is the bare minimum. *IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND YOUR PROGRESS REPORTS ON TIME*, if you don't send this email your mentors will start to get twitchy, and *especially* if they don't get any responses to their emails / don't see you in IRC. Twitchy mentors is not what we want. If you are blocked by finals, that's cool. We have all studied at some point, just tell us about it up front, be honest, and we'll work around it. If you don't know how to proceed and your mentor isn't answering *definitely* tell about it. The SoC project admins will always be available. Basically the point is that you open up the communication channels, and keep them open. That way you will have a super summer, and get paid ;)

Last year this weekly report proved to be very popular among the students and mentors alike, so we will keep it up.

=== Wiki page and blogs ===

In addition to weekly reports we require you to maintain a wiki or blog page for your project. You should store your weekly reports there and add other information, like how to compile and test your program. If applicable add screenshots and other nice info.

Wiki and/or blog space can and will be provided by OSGeo if your project doesn't have anything already set up for this.

We plan to link all of the students' blogs to the [http://planet.osgeo.org OSGeo Planet] blog aggregator for maximum community exposure and hopefully early feedback from the experts who read it, which may save you a lot of time and trouble if, for example, some obscure wheel has already been invented by another partner project.

Final reports from those blogs and wiki pages will be collected into a OSGeoofcode posting about what everyone did during the summer, ensuring you long lasting fame and fortune. (''Or failing that, a bit of public press, a bit of cash from Google, and a lot of gratitude and kudos from us, your peers.'')

[Back to [[Google Summer of Code 2014]] @ OSGeo]
[[Category: Google Summer of Code]]

Google Summer of Code 2014 Ideas

2014-02-12T02:59:52Z

Wiki-Lixingong: /* Guest projects */

[[Image:GoogleSummer_2014logo.jpg|300px|link=http://code.google.com/soc/]] @ [[Image:OSGeo_300_127_pixel.png|link=http://www.osgeo.org]]

-----
* Back to the main OSGeo [[Google Summer of Code 2014]] wiki page.

* See also ideas from [[2007_SoC_Merged_Ideas|2007]], [[2008_SoC_Merged_Ideas|2008]], [[Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_Ideas|2009]], [[Google Summer of Code 2010 Ideas|2010]], [[Google Summer of Code 2011 Ideas|2011]], [[Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas|2012]], and [[Google Summer of Code 2013 Ideas|2013]].
-----

== OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2014 ==

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] would like to extend a welcome to all SoC students. On this page you will find links to a host of ideas organized by project. You will find ideas ranging from the depths of computer science graph theory to the heights of visualization. One thing all these ideas have in common is lots and lots of spatial data.

These ideas are '''*only*''' to motivate you, and serve as example of the kind of hills we want to charge up. Your own ideas are more than welcomed - they are encouraged. We view you as the next wave of open source leaders; show us what you've got.

* '''If you need more information on how to apply you can contact all the mentoring organisations via the OSGeo-SoC mailing list''' ([[#How to get in contact via mailing lists|see below]])

* There is a [http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers Google SoC flyer] to look at and post in appropriate places and [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/google_summer_of_code/OSGeo_GSoC_2013.pdf an OSGeo flavoured one as well].

* Ok, [[OSGeo]] is involved in working with maps and things, but what kind of projects does it really do? Have a look at the [http://planet.osgeo.org/ live blog feed] to see what people are working on right now.

== Important dates ==

* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014 '''The official timeline''']


* February 24: Google announces accepted organizations.
: If OSGeo is accepted as an organization for Google Summer of Code, '''start talking to us earlier rather than later.'''

* March 10: Student applications open.
: The earlier you start the more probable it is that you will be accepted!
: ''There is two way feedback during the application process which really helps you improve and clarify your application before the final deadline. The better your involvement with your potential mentors during this period, the better your chances of being selected.''
* March 21: Student application deadline.
* April 21: '''Accepted student proposals are announced and Community Bonding Period begins.'''
* May 19: '''Coding begins!'''
: (''you may unofficially start a week or two earlier if you know you'll have to take a week or two off during The Summer or you'll be sitting finals in the first week(s) of the program. This must be reflected in your application timeline'')
* June 23: Mid-term evaluation begins
* August 11-18: '''Pencils down!'''
* August 18-22: Final evaluations
* August 22: Students begin submitting required code samples to Google
* August 25: Final results announced

== The ideas pages ==
'''''[Check back often, it's a work in progress]'''''

Each participating project's list of ideas is on the respective projects' wikis, with a short description of the project and what type of students would be interested in it:

=== OSGeo Foundation member projects ===

* ''More coming soon: Get started talking to your favorite project's development team today!''

[[Image:logo-grass.png|60px|right]]
* [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014 '''GRASS GIS''' SoC Ideas]: [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] is an open source GIS focusing on analysis, modeling and visualization. It is a collection of modules written in C and Python and has a GUI written in wxPython. If you know Python, or want to implement algorithms in C, take a look!

[[Image:logo-qgis.png|60px|right]]
* [http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 '''Quantum GIS''' SoC Ideas] Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. It is written in C++ and Python.

* [http://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/projects/gsoc-feature-based-map-algebra '''Feature-based Map Algebra''' SoC Ideas] Map algebra (or cartographic modeling) operations provide powerful tools for analyzing and manipulating geographic data in the raster data model both in commercial and open source GIS software. This project extends these operations to the vector data model and makes them available in PostGIS and QGIS. It will be implemented primarily using the Python programming language.
      



  

=== Guest projects ===

* ''tbd''


[[Image:Pgrouting-logo.png|60px|right]]
* [https://github.com/pgrouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSOC-Ideas '''pgRouting''' Ideas]: [http://pgrouting.org pgRouting] extends the PostGIS / PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing functionality and more.

* [http://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/projects/gsoc-feature-based-map-algebra '''Feature-based Map Algebra''' SoC Ideas] Map algebra (or cartographic modeling) operations provide powerful tools for analyzing and manipulating geographic data in the raster data model both in commercial and open source GIS software. This project extends these operations to the vector data model and makes them available in PostGIS and QGIS. It will be implemented primarily using the Python programming language.



== Which project do I choose? ==

Most of the software projects are available pre-built on our Live demo { DVD | USB stick | VirtualMachine } with project overviews and short tutorials where you can try everything out.
: View the documents and download the ISO from http://live.osgeo.org
[[File:Osgeolive wordle.png|400px|center]]

== How to get in contact via mailing lists ==

Since OSGeo is an umbrella organisation for multiple projects, each project has their own discussion and development mailing lists.

'''Main OSGeo mailing lists of interest to students:'''
: Please start here, when contacting us for the first time with questions about Google Summer of Code.

:* OSGeo SoC Mentors and Students - soc@lists.osgeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc)
:* OSGeo Wide Discussion List - discuss@lists.osgeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss)

Also see the [[Mailing Lists]] page for project specific lists, as well as the longer list at http://lists.osgeo.org.

== How to get in contact via IRC ==

Primary channel:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo (Web based [http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi IRC client], [http://webchat.freenode.net alternative])

GSoC @ OSGeo inter-project discussions:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-soc

Project irc channels:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gdal
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geoserver
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geotools
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#grass
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gvsig
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapguide
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapnik
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapserver
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#openlayers
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#opticks
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeolive
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#ossimplanet
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#pgrouting-project
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#postgis
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#qgis
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#udig
* irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm-dev

== Application questions we'll ask you ==
'''''[Provisional]'''''

* All questions must be answered, ''no exceptions''. Treat this as something between a formal job application and a scholarship application, because that's exactly what it is.

Name:

Country:

School and degree:

Email:

Phone:

OSGeo project(s):

Title:
(please include the name of the member project as part of
the title, for example: "Gee Whiz Foobar 2001 for QGIS")

Describe your idea
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. The idea
4. Project plan ('''detailed timeline''': how do you plan to spend your summer?)
5. Future ideas / How can your idea be expanded?

Explain how your SoC task would benefit the OSGeo member
project and more generally the OSGeo Foundation as a whole:

Please provide details of general computing experience:
(operating systems you use on a day-to-day basis, languages you
could write a program in, hardware, networking experience, etc.)

Please provide details of previous GIS experience:

Please provide details of any previous involvement with
GIS programming and other software programming:

Please tell us why you are interested in GIS and open
source software:

Please tell us why you are interested in working for OSGeo
and the software project you have selected:

Please tell us why you are interested in your specific
coding project:

Would your application contribute to your ongoing studies/
degree? If so, how?

Please explain how you intend to continue being an active
member of your project and/or OSGeo AFTER the summer is over:

Do you understand this is a serious commitment, equivalent
to a full-time paid summer internship or summer job?

Do you have any known time conflicts during the official coding
period? (May 19 to August 18)

== What to expect during the summer ==

* A group of past GSoC students, mentors, and Googlers have prepared this short book just for you:
: [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/02/flip-bits-not-burgers-student-guide.html Flip bits not Burgers: The Student's Guide to the Summer of Code] -- READ THIS eBOOK

=== Be prepared to be in constant communication with your mentors and project ===

You and your mentors will decide on the specifics, but we will expect you and your mentor to communicate *a lot*. Part of the idea of SoC is to integrate you into the developer community, so you should get involved with them from the start. The more you communicate the easier it will be. Don't be afraid that the mentors will request your phone number. It is only to make sure that we can reach you in case of problems, like making sure you get paid.

University exams and semester terms vary widely, if we know ''in advance'' that you need a week off to study, or that you've already scheduled a short vacation to somewhere off the grid, that's fine and won't count against you. But you need to ''communicate'' this up front so we can make a plan to work around it.

=== Weekly reports ===

Yes, every week we expect to see a report posted to the soc@osgeo mailing list that at least answers the following questions:

# What did you get done this week?
# What do you plan on doing next week?
# Are you blocked on anything?

These questions BTW are the same as are used in real-work, when developing with the
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) Scrum] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development development process]. ;)

If you want, feel free to write *more*. But three sentences is the bare minimum. *IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND YOUR PROGRESS REPORTS ON TIME*, if you don't send this email your mentors will start to get twitchy, and *especially* if they don't get any responses to their emails / don't see you in IRC. Twitchy mentors is not what we want. If you are blocked by finals, that's cool. We have all studied at some point, just tell us about it up front, be honest, and we'll work around it. If you don't know how to proceed and your mentor isn't answering *definitely* tell about it. The SoC project admins will always be available. Basically the point is that you open up the communication channels, and keep them open. That way you will have a super summer, and get paid ;)

Last year this weekly report proved to be very popular among the students and mentors alike, so we will keep it up.

=== Wiki page and blogs ===

In addition to weekly reports we require you to maintain a wiki or blog page for your project. You should store your weekly reports there and add other information, like how to compile and test your program. If applicable add screenshots and other nice info.

Wiki and/or blog space can and will be provided by OSGeo if your project doesn't have anything already set up for this.

We plan to link all of the students' blogs to the [http://planet.osgeo.org OSGeo Planet] blog aggregator for maximum community exposure and hopefully early feedback from the experts who read it, which may save you a lot of time and trouble if, for example, some obscure wheel has already been invented by another partner project.

Final reports from those blogs and wiki pages will be collected into a OSGeoofcode posting about what everyone did during the summer, ensuring you long lasting fame and fortune. (''Or failing that, a bit of public press, a bit of cash from Google, and a lot of gratitude and kudos from us, your peers.'')

[Back to [[Google Summer of Code 2014]] @ OSGeo]
[[Category: Google Summer of Code]]

Google Summer of Code 2014 Ideas

2014-02-11T20:50:52Z

Wiki-Lixingong: /* OSGeo Foundation member projects */

[[Image:GoogleSummer_2014logo.jpg|300px|link=http://code.google.com/soc/]] @ [[Image:OSGeo_300_127_pixel.png|link=http://www.osgeo.org]]

-----
* Back to the main OSGeo [[Google Summer of Code 2014]] wiki page.

* See also ideas from [[2007_SoC_Merged_Ideas|2007]], [[2008_SoC_Merged_Ideas|2008]], [[Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_Ideas|2009]], [[Google Summer of Code 2010 Ideas|2010]], [[Google Summer of Code 2011 Ideas|2011]], [[Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas|2012]], and [[Google Summer of Code 2013 Ideas|2013]].
-----

== OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2014 ==

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] would like to extend a welcome to all SoC students. On this page you will find links to a host of ideas organized by project. You will find ideas ranging from the depths of computer science graph theory to the heights of visualization. One thing all these ideas have in common is lots and lots of spatial data.

These ideas are '''*only*''' to motivate you, and serve as example of the kind of hills we want to charge up. Your own ideas are more than welcomed - they are encouraged. We view you as the next wave of open source leaders; show us what you've got.

* '''If you need more information on how to apply you can contact all the mentoring organisations via the OSGeo-SoC mailing list''' ([[#How to get in contact via mailing lists|see below]])

* There is a [http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers Google SoC flyer] to look at and post in appropriate places and [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/google_summer_of_code/OSGeo_GSoC_2013.pdf an OSGeo flavoured one as well].

* Ok, [[OSGeo]] is involved in working with maps and things, but what kind of projects does it really do? Have a look at the [http://planet.osgeo.org/ live blog feed] to see what people are working on right now.

== Important dates ==

* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014 '''The official timeline''']


* February 24: Google announces accepted organizations.
: If OSGeo is accepted as an organization for Google Summer of Code, '''start talking to us earlier rather than later.'''

* March 10: Student applications open.
: The earlier you start the more probable it is that you will be accepted!
: ''There is two way feedback during the application process which really helps you improve and clarify your application before the final deadline. The better your involvement with your potential mentors during this period, the better your chances of being selected.''
* March 21: Student application deadline.
* April 21: '''Accepted student proposals are announced and Community Bonding Period begins.'''
* May 19: '''Coding begins!'''
: (''you may unofficially start a week or two earlier if you know you'll have to take a week or two off during The Summer or you'll be sitting finals in the first week(s) of the program. This must be reflected in your application timeline'')
* June 23: Mid-term evaluation begins
* August 11-18: '''Pencils down!'''
* August 18-22: Final evaluations
* August 22: Students begin submitting required code samples to Google
* August 25: Final results announced

== The ideas pages ==
'''''[Check back often, it's a work in progress]'''''

Each participating project's list of ideas is on the respective projects' wikis, with a short description of the project and what type of students would be interested in it:

=== OSGeo Foundation member projects ===

* ''More coming soon: Get started talking to your favorite project's development team today!''

[[Image:logo-grass.png|60px|right]]
* [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014 '''GRASS GIS''' SoC Ideas]: [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] is an open source GIS focusing on analysis, modeling and visualization. It is a collection of modules written in C and Python and has a GUI written in wxPython. If you know Python, or want to implement algorithms in C, take a look!

[[Image:logo-qgis.png|60px|right]]
* [http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 '''Quantum GIS''' SoC Ideas] Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. It is written in C++ and Python.

* [http://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/projects/gsoc-feature-based-map-algebra '''Feature-based Map Algebra''' SoC Ideas] Map algebra (or cartographic modeling) operations provide powerful tools for analyzing and manipulating geographic data in the raster data model both in commercial and open source GIS software. This project extends these operations to the vector data model and makes them available in PostGIS and QGIS. It will be implemented primarily using the Python programming language.
      



  

=== Guest projects ===

* ''tbd''


[[Image:Pgrouting-logo.png|60px|right]]
* [https://github.com/pgrouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSOC-Ideas '''pgRouting''' Ideas]: [http://pgrouting.org pgRouting] extends the PostGIS / PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing functionality and more.



== Which project do I choose? ==

Most of the software projects are available pre-built on our Live demo { DVD | USB stick | VirtualMachine } with project overviews and short tutorials where you can try everything out.
: View the documents and download the ISO from http://live.osgeo.org
[[File:Osgeolive wordle.png|400px|center]]

== How to get in contact via mailing lists ==

Since OSGeo is an umbrella organisation for multiple projects, each project has their own discussion and development mailing lists.

'''Main OSGeo mailing lists of interest to students:'''
: Please start here, when contacting us for the first time with questions about Google Summer of Code.

:* OSGeo SoC Mentors and Students - soc@lists.osgeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc)
:* OSGeo Wide Discussion List - discuss@lists.osgeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss)

Also see the [[Mailing Lists]] page for project specific lists, as well as the longer list at http://lists.osgeo.org.

== How to get in contact via IRC ==

Primary channel:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo (Web based [http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi IRC client], [http://webchat.freenode.net alternative])

GSoC @ OSGeo inter-project discussions:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-soc

Project irc channels:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gdal
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geoserver
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geotools
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#grass
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gvsig
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapguide
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapnik
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapserver
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#openlayers
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#opticks
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeolive
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#ossimplanet
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#pgrouting-project
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#postgis
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#qgis
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#udig
* irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm-dev

== Application questions we'll ask you ==
'''''[Provisional]'''''

* All questions must be answered, ''no exceptions''. Treat this as something between a formal job application and a scholarship application, because that's exactly what it is.

Name:

Country:

School and degree:

Email:

Phone:

OSGeo project(s):

Title:
(please include the name of the member project as part of
the title, for example: "Gee Whiz Foobar 2001 for QGIS")

Describe your idea
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. The idea
4. Project plan ('''detailed timeline''': how do you plan to spend your summer?)
5. Future ideas / How can your idea be expanded?

Explain how your SoC task would benefit the OSGeo member
project and more generally the OSGeo Foundation as a whole:

Please provide details of general computing experience:
(operating systems you use on a day-to-day basis, languages you
could write a program in, hardware, networking experience, etc.)

Please provide details of previous GIS experience:

Please provide details of any previous involvement with
GIS programming and other software programming:

Please tell us why you are interested in GIS and open
source software:

Please tell us why you are interested in working for OSGeo
and the software project you have selected:

Please tell us why you are interested in your specific
coding project:

Would your application contribute to your ongoing studies/
degree? If so, how?

Please explain how you intend to continue being an active
member of your project and/or OSGeo AFTER the summer is over:

Do you understand this is a serious commitment, equivalent
to a full-time paid summer internship or summer job?

Do you have any known time conflicts during the official coding
period? (May 19 to August 18)

== What to expect during the summer ==

* A group of past GSoC students, mentors, and Googlers have prepared this short book just for you:
: [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/02/flip-bits-not-burgers-student-guide.html Flip bits not Burgers: The Student's Guide to the Summer of Code] -- READ THIS eBOOK

=== Be prepared to be in constant communication with your mentors and project ===

You and your mentors will decide on the specifics, but we will expect you and your mentor to communicate *a lot*. Part of the idea of SoC is to integrate you into the developer community, so you should get involved with them from the start. The more you communicate the easier it will be. Don't be afraid that the mentors will request your phone number. It is only to make sure that we can reach you in case of problems, like making sure you get paid.

University exams and semester terms vary widely, if we know ''in advance'' that you need a week off to study, or that you've already scheduled a short vacation to somewhere off the grid, that's fine and won't count against you. But you need to ''communicate'' this up front so we can make a plan to work around it.

=== Weekly reports ===

Yes, every week we expect to see a report posted to the soc@osgeo mailing list that at least answers the following questions:

# What did you get done this week?
# What do you plan on doing next week?
# Are you blocked on anything?

These questions BTW are the same as are used in real-work, when developing with the
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) Scrum] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development development process]. ;)

If you want, feel free to write *more*. But three sentences is the bare minimum. *IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND YOUR PROGRESS REPORTS ON TIME*, if you don't send this email your mentors will start to get twitchy, and *especially* if they don't get any responses to their emails / don't see you in IRC. Twitchy mentors is not what we want. If you are blocked by finals, that's cool. We have all studied at some point, just tell us about it up front, be honest, and we'll work around it. If you don't know how to proceed and your mentor isn't answering *definitely* tell about it. The SoC project admins will always be available. Basically the point is that you open up the communication channels, and keep them open. That way you will have a super summer, and get paid ;)

Last year this weekly report proved to be very popular among the students and mentors alike, so we will keep it up.

=== Wiki page and blogs ===

In addition to weekly reports we require you to maintain a wiki or blog page for your project. You should store your weekly reports there and add other information, like how to compile and test your program. If applicable add screenshots and other nice info.

Wiki and/or blog space can and will be provided by OSGeo if your project doesn't have anything already set up for this.

We plan to link all of the students' blogs to the [http://planet.osgeo.org OSGeo Planet] blog aggregator for maximum community exposure and hopefully early feedback from the experts who read it, which may save you a lot of time and trouble if, for example, some obscure wheel has already been invented by another partner project.

Final reports from those blogs and wiki pages will be collected into a OSGeoofcode posting about what everyone did during the summer, ensuring you long lasting fame and fortune. (''Or failing that, a bit of public press, a bit of cash from Google, and a lot of gratitude and kudos from us, your peers.'')

[Back to [[Google Summer of Code 2014]] @ OSGeo]
[[Category: Google Summer of Code]]

Google Summer of Code 2014 Ideas

2014-02-11T19:19:10Z

Wiki-Lixingong: /* OSGeo Foundation member projects */

[[Image:GoogleSummer_2014logo.jpg|300px|link=http://code.google.com/soc/]] @ [[Image:OSGeo_300_127_pixel.png|link=http://www.osgeo.org]]

-----
* Back to the main OSGeo [[Google Summer of Code 2014]] wiki page.

* See also ideas from [[2007_SoC_Merged_Ideas|2007]], [[2008_SoC_Merged_Ideas|2008]], [[Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_Ideas|2009]], [[Google Summer of Code 2010 Ideas|2010]], [[Google Summer of Code 2011 Ideas|2011]], [[Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas|2012]], and [[Google Summer of Code 2013 Ideas|2013]].
-----

== OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2014 ==

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] would like to extend a welcome to all SoC students. On this page you will find links to a host of ideas organized by project. You will find ideas ranging from the depths of computer science graph theory to the heights of visualization. One thing all these ideas have in common is lots and lots of spatial data.

These ideas are '''*only*''' to motivate you, and serve as example of the kind of hills we want to charge up. Your own ideas are more than welcomed - they are encouraged. We view you as the next wave of open source leaders; show us what you've got.

* '''If you need more information on how to apply you can contact all the mentoring organisations via the OSGeo-SoC mailing list''' ([[#How to get in contact via mailing lists|see below]])

* There is a [http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers Google SoC flyer] to look at and post in appropriate places and [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/google_summer_of_code/OSGeo_GSoC_2013.pdf an OSGeo flavoured one as well].

* Ok, [[OSGeo]] is involved in working with maps and things, but what kind of projects does it really do? Have a look at the [http://planet.osgeo.org/ live blog feed] to see what people are working on right now.

== Important dates ==

* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014 '''The official timeline''']


* February 24: Google announces accepted organizations.
: If OSGeo is accepted as an organization for Google Summer of Code, '''start talking to us earlier rather than later.'''

* March 10: Student applications open.
: The earlier you start the more probable it is that you will be accepted!
: ''There is two way feedback during the application process which really helps you improve and clarify your application before the final deadline. The better your involvement with your potential mentors during this period, the better your chances of being selected.''
* March 21: Student application deadline.
* April 21: '''Accepted student proposals are announced and Community Bonding Period begins.'''
* May 19: '''Coding begins!'''
: (''you may unofficially start a week or two earlier if you know you'll have to take a week or two off during The Summer or you'll be sitting finals in the first week(s) of the program. This must be reflected in your application timeline'')
* June 23: Mid-term evaluation begins
* August 11-18: '''Pencils down!'''
* August 18-22: Final evaluations
* August 22: Students begin submitting required code samples to Google
* August 25: Final results announced

== The ideas pages ==
'''''[Check back often, it's a work in progress]'''''

Each participating project's list of ideas is on the respective projects' wikis, with a short description of the project and what type of students would be interested in it:

=== OSGeo Foundation member projects ===

* ''More coming soon: Get started talking to your favorite project's development team today!''

[[Image:logo-grass.png|60px|right]]
* [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014 '''GRASS GIS''' SoC Ideas]: [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] is an open source GIS focusing on analysis, modeling and visualization. It is a collection of modules written in C and Python and has a GUI written in wxPython. If you know Python, or want to implement algorithms in C, take a look!

[[Image:logo-qgis.png|60px|right]]
* [http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 '''Quantum GIS''' SoC Ideas] Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. It is written in C++ and Python.

* [http://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/projects '''Feature-based Map Algebra''' SoC Ideas] Map algebra (or cartographic modeling) operations provide powerful tools for analyzing and manipulating geographic data in the raster data model both in commercial and open source GIS software. This project extends these operations to the vector data model and makes them available in PostGIS and QGIS. It will be implemented primarily using the Python programming language.
      



  

=== Guest projects ===

* ''tbd''


[[Image:Pgrouting-logo.png|60px|right]]
* [https://github.com/pgrouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSOC-Ideas '''pgRouting''' Ideas]: [http://pgrouting.org pgRouting] extends the PostGIS / PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing functionality and more.



== Which project do I choose? ==

Most of the software projects are available pre-built on our Live demo { DVD | USB stick | VirtualMachine } with project overviews and short tutorials where you can try everything out.
: View the documents and download the ISO from http://live.osgeo.org
[[File:Osgeolive wordle.png|400px|center]]

== How to get in contact via mailing lists ==

Since OSGeo is an umbrella organisation for multiple projects, each project has their own discussion and development mailing lists.

'''Main OSGeo mailing lists of interest to students:'''
: Please start here, when contacting us for the first time with questions about Google Summer of Code.

:* OSGeo SoC Mentors and Students - soc@lists.osgeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc)
:* OSGeo Wide Discussion List - discuss@lists.osgeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss)

Also see the [[Mailing Lists]] page for project specific lists, as well as the longer list at http://lists.osgeo.org.

== How to get in contact via IRC ==

Primary channel:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo (Web based [http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi IRC client], [http://webchat.freenode.net alternative])

GSoC @ OSGeo inter-project discussions:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-soc

Project irc channels:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gdal
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geoserver
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geotools
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#grass
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gvsig
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapguide
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapnik
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapserver
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#openlayers
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#opticks
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeolive
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#ossimplanet
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#pgrouting-project
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#postgis
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#qgis
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#udig
* irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm-dev

== Application questions we'll ask you ==
'''''[Provisional]'''''

* All questions must be answered, ''no exceptions''. Treat this as something between a formal job application and a scholarship application, because that's exactly what it is.

Name:

Country:

School and degree:

Email:

Phone:

OSGeo project(s):

Title:
(please include the name of the member project as part of
the title, for example: "Gee Whiz Foobar 2001 for QGIS")

Describe your idea
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. The idea
4. Project plan ('''detailed timeline''': how do you plan to spend your summer?)
5. Future ideas / How can your idea be expanded?

Explain how your SoC task would benefit the OSGeo member
project and more generally the OSGeo Foundation as a whole:

Please provide details of general computing experience:
(operating systems you use on a day-to-day basis, languages you
could write a program in, hardware, networking experience, etc.)

Please provide details of previous GIS experience:

Please provide details of any previous involvement with
GIS programming and other software programming:

Please tell us why you are interested in GIS and open
source software:

Please tell us why you are interested in working for OSGeo
and the software project you have selected:

Please tell us why you are interested in your specific
coding project:

Would your application contribute to your ongoing studies/
degree? If so, how?

Please explain how you intend to continue being an active
member of your project and/or OSGeo AFTER the summer is over:

Do you understand this is a serious commitment, equivalent
to a full-time paid summer internship or summer job?

Do you have any known time conflicts during the official coding
period? (May 19 to August 18)

== What to expect during the summer ==

* A group of past GSoC students, mentors, and Googlers have prepared this short book just for you:
: [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/02/flip-bits-not-burgers-student-guide.html Flip bits not Burgers: The Student's Guide to the Summer of Code] -- READ THIS eBOOK

=== Be prepared to be in constant communication with your mentors and project ===

You and your mentors will decide on the specifics, but we will expect you and your mentor to communicate *a lot*. Part of the idea of SoC is to integrate you into the developer community, so you should get involved with them from the start. The more you communicate the easier it will be. Don't be afraid that the mentors will request your phone number. It is only to make sure that we can reach you in case of problems, like making sure you get paid.

University exams and semester terms vary widely, if we know ''in advance'' that you need a week off to study, or that you've already scheduled a short vacation to somewhere off the grid, that's fine and won't count against you. But you need to ''communicate'' this up front so we can make a plan to work around it.

=== Weekly reports ===

Yes, every week we expect to see a report posted to the soc@osgeo mailing list that at least answers the following questions:

# What did you get done this week?
# What do you plan on doing next week?
# Are you blocked on anything?

These questions BTW are the same as are used in real-work, when developing with the
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) Scrum] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development development process]. ;)

If you want, feel free to write *more*. But three sentences is the bare minimum. *IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND YOUR PROGRESS REPORTS ON TIME*, if you don't send this email your mentors will start to get twitchy, and *especially* if they don't get any responses to their emails / don't see you in IRC. Twitchy mentors is not what we want. If you are blocked by finals, that's cool. We have all studied at some point, just tell us about it up front, be honest, and we'll work around it. If you don't know how to proceed and your mentor isn't answering *definitely* tell about it. The SoC project admins will always be available. Basically the point is that you open up the communication channels, and keep them open. That way you will have a super summer, and get paid ;)

Last year this weekly report proved to be very popular among the students and mentors alike, so we will keep it up.

=== Wiki page and blogs ===

In addition to weekly reports we require you to maintain a wiki or blog page for your project. You should store your weekly reports there and add other information, like how to compile and test your program. If applicable add screenshots and other nice info.

Wiki and/or blog space can and will be provided by OSGeo if your project doesn't have anything already set up for this.

We plan to link all of the students' blogs to the [http://planet.osgeo.org OSGeo Planet] blog aggregator for maximum community exposure and hopefully early feedback from the experts who read it, which may save you a lot of time and trouble if, for example, some obscure wheel has already been invented by another partner project.

Final reports from those blogs and wiki pages will be collected into a OSGeoofcode posting about what everyone did during the summer, ensuring you long lasting fame and fortune. (''Or failing that, a bit of public press, a bit of cash from Google, and a lot of gratitude and kudos from us, your peers.'')

[Back to [[Google Summer of Code 2014]] @ OSGeo]
[[Category: Google Summer of Code]]

Google Summer of Code 2014 Ideas

2014-02-11T19:06:32Z

Wiki-Lixingong: /* OSGeo Foundation member projects */

[[Image:GoogleSummer_2014logo.jpg|300px|link=http://code.google.com/soc/]] @ [[Image:OSGeo_300_127_pixel.png|link=http://www.osgeo.org]]

-----
* Back to the main OSGeo [[Google Summer of Code 2014]] wiki page.

* See also ideas from [[2007_SoC_Merged_Ideas|2007]], [[2008_SoC_Merged_Ideas|2008]], [[Google_Summer_of_Code_2009_Ideas|2009]], [[Google Summer of Code 2010 Ideas|2010]], [[Google Summer of Code 2011 Ideas|2011]], [[Google Summer of Code 2012 Ideas|2012]], and [[Google Summer of Code 2013 Ideas|2013]].
-----

== OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2014 ==

The [http://www.osgeo.org Open Source Geospatial Foundation] would like to extend a welcome to all SoC students. On this page you will find links to a host of ideas organized by project. You will find ideas ranging from the depths of computer science graph theory to the heights of visualization. One thing all these ideas have in common is lots and lots of spatial data.

These ideas are '''*only*''' to motivate you, and serve as example of the kind of hills we want to charge up. Your own ideas are more than welcomed - they are encouraged. We view you as the next wave of open source leaders; show us what you've got.

* '''If you need more information on how to apply you can contact all the mentoring organisations via the OSGeo-SoC mailing list''' ([[#How to get in contact via mailing lists|see below]])

* There is a [http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers Google SoC flyer] to look at and post in appropriate places and [http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/flyer/google_summer_of_code/OSGeo_GSoC_2013.pdf an OSGeo flavoured one as well].

* Ok, [[OSGeo]] is involved in working with maps and things, but what kind of projects does it really do? Have a look at the [http://planet.osgeo.org/ live blog feed] to see what people are working on right now.

== Important dates ==

* [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014 '''The official timeline''']


* February 24: Google announces accepted organizations.
: If OSGeo is accepted as an organization for Google Summer of Code, '''start talking to us earlier rather than later.'''

* March 10: Student applications open.
: The earlier you start the more probable it is that you will be accepted!
: ''There is two way feedback during the application process which really helps you improve and clarify your application before the final deadline. The better your involvement with your potential mentors during this period, the better your chances of being selected.''
* March 21: Student application deadline.
* April 21: '''Accepted student proposals are announced and Community Bonding Period begins.'''
* May 19: '''Coding begins!'''
: (''you may unofficially start a week or two earlier if you know you'll have to take a week or two off during The Summer or you'll be sitting finals in the first week(s) of the program. This must be reflected in your application timeline'')
* June 23: Mid-term evaluation begins
* August 11-18: '''Pencils down!'''
* August 18-22: Final evaluations
* August 22: Students begin submitting required code samples to Google
* August 25: Final results announced

== The ideas pages ==
'''''[Check back often, it's a work in progress]'''''

Each participating project's list of ideas is on the respective projects' wikis, with a short description of the project and what type of students would be interested in it:

=== OSGeo Foundation member projects ===

* ''More coming soon: Get started talking to your favorite project's development team today!''

[[Image:logo-grass.png|60px|right]]
* [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2014 '''GRASS GIS''' SoC Ideas]: [http://grass.osgeo.org GRASS GIS] is an open source GIS focusing on analysis, modeling and visualization. It is a collection of modules written in C and Python and has a GUI written in wxPython. If you know Python, or want to implement algorithms in C, take a look!

[[Image:logo-qgis.png|60px|right]]
* [http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014 '''Quantum GIS''' SoC Ideas] Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) that runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and Windows. QGIS supports vector, raster, and database formats. It is written in C++ and Python.

* [http://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku '''Feature-based Map Algebra''' SoC Ideas] Map algebra (or cartographic modeling) operations provide powerful tools for analyzing and manipulating geographic data in the raster data model both in commercial and open source GIS software. This project extends these operations to the vector data model and makes them available in PostGIS and QGIS. It will be implemented primarily using the Python programming language.
      



  

=== Guest projects ===

* ''tbd''


[[Image:Pgrouting-logo.png|60px|right]]
* [https://github.com/pgrouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSOC-Ideas '''pgRouting''' Ideas]: [http://pgrouting.org pgRouting] extends the PostGIS / PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing functionality and more.



== Which project do I choose? ==

Most of the software projects are available pre-built on our Live demo { DVD | USB stick | VirtualMachine } with project overviews and short tutorials where you can try everything out.
: View the documents and download the ISO from http://live.osgeo.org
[[File:Osgeolive wordle.png|400px|center]]

== How to get in contact via mailing lists ==

Since OSGeo is an umbrella organisation for multiple projects, each project has their own discussion and development mailing lists.

'''Main OSGeo mailing lists of interest to students:'''
: Please start here, when contacting us for the first time with questions about Google Summer of Code.

:* OSGeo SoC Mentors and Students - soc@lists.osgeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/soc)
:* OSGeo Wide Discussion List - discuss@lists.osgeo.org (http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss)

Also see the [[Mailing Lists]] page for project specific lists, as well as the longer list at http://lists.osgeo.org.

== How to get in contact via IRC ==

Primary channel:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo (Web based [http://irc.telascience.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi IRC client], [http://webchat.freenode.net alternative])

GSoC @ OSGeo inter-project discussions:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo-soc

Project irc channels:

* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gdal
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geoserver
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#geotools
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#grass
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#gvsig
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapguide
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapnik
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#mapserver
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#openlayers
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#opticks
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeolive
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#ossimplanet
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#pgrouting-project
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#postgis
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#qgis
* irc://irc.freenode.net/#udig
* irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm-dev

== Application questions we'll ask you ==
'''''[Provisional]'''''

* All questions must be answered, ''no exceptions''. Treat this as something between a formal job application and a scholarship application, because that's exactly what it is.

Name:

Country:

School and degree:

Email:

Phone:

OSGeo project(s):

Title:
(please include the name of the member project as part of
the title, for example: "Gee Whiz Foobar 2001 for QGIS")

Describe your idea
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. The idea
4. Project plan ('''detailed timeline''': how do you plan to spend your summer?)
5. Future ideas / How can your idea be expanded?

Explain how your SoC task would benefit the OSGeo member
project and more generally the OSGeo Foundation as a whole:

Please provide details of general computing experience:
(operating systems you use on a day-to-day basis, languages you
could write a program in, hardware, networking experience, etc.)

Please provide details of previous GIS experience:

Please provide details of any previous involvement with
GIS programming and other software programming:

Please tell us why you are interested in GIS and open
source software:

Please tell us why you are interested in working for OSGeo
and the software project you have selected:

Please tell us why you are interested in your specific
coding project:

Would your application contribute to your ongoing studies/
degree? If so, how?

Please explain how you intend to continue being an active
member of your project and/or OSGeo AFTER the summer is over:

Do you understand this is a serious commitment, equivalent
to a full-time paid summer internship or summer job?

Do you have any known time conflicts during the official coding
period? (May 19 to August 18)

== What to expect during the summer ==

* A group of past GSoC students, mentors, and Googlers have prepared this short book just for you:
: [http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/02/flip-bits-not-burgers-student-guide.html Flip bits not Burgers: The Student's Guide to the Summer of Code] -- READ THIS eBOOK

=== Be prepared to be in constant communication with your mentors and project ===

You and your mentors will decide on the specifics, but we will expect you and your mentor to communicate *a lot*. Part of the idea of SoC is to integrate you into the developer community, so you should get involved with them from the start. The more you communicate the easier it will be. Don't be afraid that the mentors will request your phone number. It is only to make sure that we can reach you in case of problems, like making sure you get paid.

University exams and semester terms vary widely, if we know ''in advance'' that you need a week off to study, or that you've already scheduled a short vacation to somewhere off the grid, that's fine and won't count against you. But you need to ''communicate'' this up front so we can make a plan to work around it.

=== Weekly reports ===

Yes, every week we expect to see a report posted to the soc@osgeo mailing list that at least answers the following questions:

# What did you get done this week?
# What do you plan on doing next week?
# Are you blocked on anything?

These questions BTW are the same as are used in real-work, when developing with the
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development) Scrum] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development development process]. ;)

If you want, feel free to write *more*. But three sentences is the bare minimum. *IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND YOUR PROGRESS REPORTS ON TIME*, if you don't send this email your mentors will start to get twitchy, and *especially* if they don't get any responses to their emails / don't see you in IRC. Twitchy mentors is not what we want. If you are blocked by finals, that's cool. We have all studied at some point, just tell us about it up front, be honest, and we'll work around it. If you don't know how to proceed and your mentor isn't answering *definitely* tell about it. The SoC project admins will always be available. Basically the point is that you open up the communication channels, and keep them open. That way you will have a super summer, and get paid ;)

Last year this weekly report proved to be very popular among the students and mentors alike, so we will keep it up.

=== Wiki page and blogs ===

In addition to weekly reports we require you to maintain a wiki or blog page for your project. You should store your weekly reports there and add other information, like how to compile and test your program. If applicable add screenshots and other nice info.

Wiki and/or blog space can and will be provided by OSGeo if your project doesn't have anything already set up for this.

We plan to link all of the students' blogs to the [http://planet.osgeo.org OSGeo Planet] blog aggregator for maximum community exposure and hopefully early feedback from the experts who read it, which may save you a lot of time and trouble if, for example, some obscure wheel has already been invented by another partner project.

Final reports from those blogs and wiki pages will be collected into a OSGeoofcode posting about what everyone did during the summer, ensuring you long lasting fame and fortune. (''Or failing that, a bit of public press, a bit of cash from Google, and a lot of gratitude and kudos from us, your peers.'')

[Back to [[Google Summer of Code 2014]] @ OSGeo]
[[Category: Google Summer of Code]]

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== 2013-2014 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

'''The official website is online at ''http://www.geoforall.org'''''

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

[[Webinar Series ]]

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].


It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are (please add '''WGS84 decimal coordinates longitude,latitude''', if you don't add the coordinate following this simple rules your institution will not show on the ICA-OSGeo Map) :

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" rules="all" style="margin:1em 1em 1em 0; border:solid 1px #AAAAAAAA; border-collapse:collapse; background-color:#edf9c7; font-size:95%; empty-cells:show;"
!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates (longitude, latitude)
! Application recieved / Announced
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
! Contact names
! Contact emails
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| -1.250296, 52.831497
|
|
| Jeremy Morley
| Jeremy dot Morley at nottingham.ac.uk
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.837305, 41.967426
| 2012-09-10
|
| Lluís Vicens
| lluis at sigte.udg.edu
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| -1.396873, 50.936974
| 2013-04-30
|
| Jason Sadler
| osgl at geodata.soton.ac.uk
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 14.390363, 50.10183
| 2012-11-23
|
| Martin Landa
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| -1.611536, 54.980656
| 2013-01-17
|
| Philip James
| philip.james at ncl.ac.uk (please use subject: OSGeoLab)
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/ Politecnico di Milano - Polo Territoriale di Como]
| Como
| Italy
| Europe
| 9.095939, 45.803516
| 2013-02-25
|
| Maria Brovelli
| geowb at geomatica.como.polimi.it
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
| -1.56273, 52.380531
| 2013-03-23
|
| Nataliya Tkachenko
| geolab at warwick.ac.uk
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.039473, 52.198849
| 2013-03-18
|
| Ela Woloszynska-Wisniewska
| ela at gridw.pl
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.961098, 46.028362
| 2013-09-03
|
| Massimiliano Cannata
| geomatica at supsi.ch
|-
| 10.
| [http://karlinapp.ethz.ch/osgl/ ETH Zurich]
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 8.5481, 47.3764
| 2013-09-20
| [http://www.ikg.ethz.ch/about/index_EN Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich]
| Ionuț Iosifescu
| iosifescu at ethz.ch
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
| 14.493651, 41.630815
|
| in process of being established
| Rosella Nocera
|
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 21.012229, 52.229676
|
| in process of being established
| Agata Ciołkosz-Styk
|
|-
| 13.
| [http://opengis.unibuc.ro/ Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest]
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
| 26.103889, 44.432500
|
| in process of being established; new website under development
| Andreea Marin
| andreea dot marin09 at yahoo dot com
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| 18.418833, 47.188778
|
| in process of being established
| Andrea Pődör
|
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.hft-stuttgart.de/Studienbereiche/Vermessung/Master-Photogrammetry-Geoinformatics/Labs/ICA-OSGeo-Labor/index.html/en Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences]
| Stuttgart
| Germany
| Europe
| 9.17370, 48.77996
| 2013-10-14
|
| Franz-Josef Behr
| franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| -49.26141, -25.427074
| 2012-05-23
|
| Silvana Camboim
|
|-
| 17.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
| -46.654129, -23.576574
|
|
|
|
|-
| 18.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
| -73.245789, -3.745845
| 2013-02-01
| in process of being established
| Andrea Birgit Chavez
|
|-
| 19.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| -56.176441, -34.902405
| 2013-03-01
| new website under development
| Virginia Fernandez
| vfernandez@presidencia.gub.uy
|-
| 20.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
| -47.063239, -22.907105
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 21.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
| -35.735098, -9.666251
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| -78.6764, 35.7818
| 2012-10-18
|
| Helena Mitasova
| hmitaso at ncsu.edu
|-
| 23.
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
| -72.524696, 42.393578
| 2012-10-18
| website: coming soon
| Charlie Schweik
|
|-
| 24.
| [https://sites.google.com/site/foss4gku/ University of Kansas]
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| -95.251311, 38.958578
| 2013-08-23
|
| Xingong Li
| lixi@ku.edu
|-
| 25.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| -121.766945, 38.548801
| 2013-02-04
| in process of being established
| Alex Mandel
| aimandel@ucdavis.edu
|-
| 26.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
| -102.5791, 22.7608
| 2013-04-05
| in process of being established
| Manual Haro
| manuel.haro@zacatecas.gob.mx
|-
| 27.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
| -81.357886,41.153667
| 2013-08-30
|
| Xinyue Ye
| xye5@kent.edu
|-
| 28.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/osgl Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
| -80.730000, 35.306944
| 2013-09-05
|
| Wenwu Tang
| WenwuTang at uncc.edu
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.721298, 3.172932
| 2012-01-09
| website in development
| Tuong Thuy Vu
| Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my
|-
| 30.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 101.874222, 2.943748
|
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 31.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.059875, 14.656005
|
| in process of being established
| Noriel Christopher Tiglao
|
|-
| 32.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
| 121.062241, 14.64372
|
| in process of being established
| Maning Sambale
|
|-
| 33.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
| 78.3503, 17.4454
| 2011-08-22
|
| Dr K S Rajan
|
|-
| 34.
| [http://grel.ist.edu.pk/ Geospatial Research and Education Lab](GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
| 73.175045, 33.520060
|
|
|Rizwan Bulbul
|bulbul(dot)rizwan(at)gmail(dot)com
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| 28.22847, -25.75429
| 2012-05-15
|
| Serena Coetzee
| serena dot coetzee at up dot ac dot za
|-
| 36.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.858574, -1.249038
|
| in process of being established
| Hussein Farah
| farah@rcmrd.org
|-
| 37.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
| -0.191617, 5.650366
|
| in process of being established
| Foster Mensah
|
|-
| 38.
| The University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
| 144.962006, -37.797932
| 2013-07-22
|
| Chris Pettit
|
|-
| 39.
| [http://gisc.tamucc.edu Texas A&M University]
| Corpus Christi
| USA
| North America
| -97.328799, 27.714506
| 2013-09-09
| in process of being established
| Rick Smith
| Richard.Smith at tamucc.edu
|-
| 40.
| CEPT University
| Ahmedabad
| India
| Asia
| 72.566004,23.039568
| 2012-07-18
| in process of being established
| Prof. Anjana Vyas & Ms. Darshana Rawal
| anjanavyas@cept.ac.in rawalnet@cept.ac.in
|-
| 41.
| National University of San Juan
| San Juan
| Argentina
| South America
| -68.521408, -31.527273
| 2012-06-15
| in process of being established
| Agustin Arroqui
| aarroqui@unsj.edu.ar
|-
| 42.
| [http://geodacenter.asu.edu GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, Arizona State University]
| Tempe, AZ
| USA
| North America
| -111.940005, 33.425510
| 2013-09-27
| Spatial econometrics, geocomputation, spatial optimization - [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads GeoDa], [http://pysal.org PySAL], [https://geodacenter.asu.edu/software/downloads/geodaspace GeoDaSpace]
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Anselin Luc Anselin]
| geodacenter@asu.edu
|-
| 43.
| National Technical University of Athens
| Athens
| Greece
| Europe
| 23.729310, 37.983716
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
|
|
|-
| 44.
| IGN- France
| Paris
| France
| Europe
| 2.352222, 48.856614
| 2013-09-26
| in process of being established
| Benedicte Bucher
|
|-
| 45.
| Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
| Barcelona
| Spain
| Europe
| 2.173403, 41.385064
| 2013-09-27
| in process of being established
| Dr. Antoni Pérez Navarro
| aperezn at uoc.edu
|-
| 46.
| [http://www.isric.org ISRIC - World Soil Information foundation]
| Wageningen
| The Netherlands
| Europe
| 5.665662,51.9875
|2013-10-02
|website in construction
| Jorge de Jesus
| jorge.mendesdejesus at wur.nl
|-
| 47.
| Universidade da Coruña
| A Coruña (España)
| Spain
| Europe
| -8.411540, 43.362344
| 2013-10-15
| in process of being established
| Alberto Varela García
|
|-
| 48.
| Universiti Sains Malaysia
| Penang
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 100.484623, 5.263234
|2013-10-16
|in process of being established
| Ruslan Rainis
|
|-
| 49.
| Kathmandu University
| Dhulikhel
| Nepal
| Asia
| 85.550000, 27.616667
|2012-12-24
|in process of being established
| Shashish Maharjan
|
|-
| 50
| [http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ GIS and Remote Sensing Unit, Fondazione Edmund Mach ]
| San Michele all'Adige (Trento)
| Italy
| Europe
| 11.133042,46.187865
|2013-10-16
|
| Luca Delucchi
| luca.delucchi at fmach.it
|-
| 51.
| [http://gis.research.southwales.ac.uk/ University of South Wales ]
| Cardiff
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -3.179090,51.481581
|2013-10-31
|
| Dr Mark Ware
| mark.ware at southwales.ac.uk
|-
| 52.
| Portland State University
| Portland, Oregon
| USA
| North America
| -122.676207,45.523452
| 2013-10-22
| In process of being established
| David Percy
| percy at pdx.edu
|-
| 53.
| [http://www.icpac.net/ IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center]
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
| 36.821946,-1.292066
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Muyambi Fortunate
| fbenda at icpac.net
|-
|-
| 54.
| [http://www.labocart.ufc.br/ Federal University of Ceará ]
| Ceará
| Brazil
| South America
| -38.543395,-3.718394
| 2013-10-29
| In process of being established
| Prof. Dr. Adryane Gorayeb
| adryanegorayeb at yahoo dot com dot br
|-
| 55.
| [http://geospecial.wordpress.com/ University of Gloucestershire ]
| Gloucester and Cheltenham
| United Kingdom
| Europe
| -2.223409, 51.872215
| 2013-11-06
| In process of being established
| Dr Robert Berry
| rberry at glos.ac.uk
|-
| 56.
| [http://mrt.ac.lk/foa/ University of Moratuwa ]
| Moratuwa
| Sri Lanka
| Asia
| 79.9008, 6.7964
| 2013-11-11
| In process of being established
| Aruna Wickramasinghe
| toaruna at gmail.com
|-
| 57.
| [http://lab.osstat.org/ Fudan University ]
| Shanghai
| China
| Asia
| 121.452, 31.198
| 2013-11-14
| In process of being established
| Zhijie Zhang
| epistat at gmail.com
|-
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

== ISC OSGeo Lab Network Research and Teaching Areas ==

[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Research_areas]]
 
[[ICA_OSGeo_Lab_Teaching_areas]]

[[Category: Education]]
[[Category: ICA OSGeo Lab Network]]

Edu current initiatives

2013-09-07T04:43:12Z

Wiki-Lixingong: /* 2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network */

== 2012-2013 OSGeo Education and Curriculum Current Initiatives ==

=== 1) Continue to build up our educational material federated content databases ===

[http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content OSGeo edu's educational content metadatabase] -- a place for metadata and links to external material we are posting on our own websites 
[http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/ University of Nottingham's educational content database] (ELOGeo) -- a place for us to store education content (the source code) to share

===2) Continue to expand the ICA-OSGeo Network ===

This effort is led by Suchith Anand at the University of Nottingham, UK.

In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. It also aims to provide support for building-up and supporting development of open source GIS teaching and training materials, joint organization of open source GIS events, workshops through the ICA network for wider participation globally etc. Details at [[MOU_ICA]].

[http://conlibre.org/osgeolabs/ Visit the ICA-OSGeo Network website]

[https://mapsengine.google.com/map/embed?mid=z4Nmc5_-QPhA.kBqA02Uh9xoc Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes],
[https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0&ll=-27.332735,-43.330078&spn=18.234488,25.158691 Alternative Map of the ICA-OSGeo Network Nodes](thanks to Franz-Josef)

It is really good to see our rapidly expanding global spread.

Feel free to join the mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs to follow the discussions among the participants of this initiative.

The current members of the ICA-OSGeo Network are:

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!
! Laboratory name and institution
! City
! Country
! Continent
! Coordinates
! Notes (collaborations, etc)
|-
| 1.
| [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi/research/geospatial-science/geospatial-science.aspx University of Nottingham]
| Nottingham
| UK
| Europe
| 53° 10′ 0″ N, 1° 0′ 0″ W
|
|-
| 2.
| [http://www.sigte.udg.edu/ University of Girona]
| Girona
| Spain
| Europe
| 41°59′04″N, 02°49′16″E
|
|-
| 3.
| [http://www.osgl.soton.ac.uk/ University of Southampton]
| Southampton
| UK
| Europe
| 50.933882, -1.396658
|
|-
| 4.
| [http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/osgeorel Czech Technical University in Prague]
| Prague
| Czech Republic
| Europe
| 50°6'14.476"N, 14°23'17.045"E
|
|-
| 5.
| [http://research.ncl.ac.uk/osgeolab/ Newcastle University]
| Newcastle
| UK
| Europe
| 54.981189, -1.614617
|
|-
| 6.
| [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/index.php?lang=en Politecnico di Milano]
| Milano
| Italy
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 7.
| [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/research/facilities/geolab/ University of Warwick]
| Warwick
| UK
| Europe
|
|
|-
| 8.
| [http://www.gridw.pl UNEP/GRID-Warsaw Centre]
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
| 52°11′57″N, 21°02′11″E
|
|-
| 9.
| [http://www.supsi.ch/ist_en/settori-attivita/geomatica.html University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland] (SUPSI)
| Lugano
| Switzerland
| Europe
| 46.028362, 8.961098
|
|-
| 10.
| ETH Zurich
| Zurich
| Switzerland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 11.
| University of Molise
| Molise
| Italy
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 12.
| [http://www.igik.edu.pl/en Institute of Geodesy and Cartography] (IGiK)
| Warsaw
| Poland
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 13.
| University of Bucharest
| Bucharest
| Romania
| Europe
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 14.
| [http://www.geo.info.hu/english/index.php Faculty of Geoinformatics,University of West Hungary]
| Székesfehérvár
| Hungary
| Europe
| N 47° 11' 19.6", E 18° 25' 07.8"
| in process of being established
|-
| 15.
| [http://www.geomatica.ufpr.br/index.html Federal University of Paraná]
| Paraná
| Brazil
| South America
| 25°26'54"S, 49°13'51"W
|
|-
| 16.
| [http://www.unesp.br/ São Paulo State University] (UNESP)
| São Paulo
| Brazil
| South America
|
|
|-
| 17.
| National Amazonian University of Madre de Dios (UNAMAD)
| Puerto Maldonado
| Peru
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 18.
| [http://ltaat.fcien.edu.uy Universidad de la República]
| Montevideo
| Uruguay
| South America
| 34°52'54.87"S, 56° 7'2.10"W
| new website under development
|-
| 19.
| University of Campinas
| Campinas
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 20.
| Federal University of Alagoas
| Maceió
| Brazil
| South America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 21.
| [http://gis.ncsu.edu/osgeorel/ Center for Earth Observation, North Carolina State University]
| Raleigh, NC
| USA
| North America
| 35°46′54.14″N, 78°40′33.79″W
|
|-
| 22.
| [http://www.umass.edu/ University of Massachusetts Amherst]
| Amherst
| USA
| North America
|
|
|-
| 23.
| University of Kansas
| Lawrence, KS
| USA
| North America
| 38°57'30.88"N, 95°15'4.72"W
| in process of being established
|-
| 24.
| [https://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source University of California, Davis]
| Davis
| USA
| North America
| 38.5397, -121.7490
| in process of being established
|-
| 25.
| [http://www.cozcyt.gob.mx/labsol/ Laboratorio de Software Libre]
| Zacatecas
| Mexico
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 26.
| Kent State University
| Kent, Ohio
| USA
| North America
|
|
|-
| 27.
| [https://gis.uncc.edu/ Center for Applied GIScience, University of North Carolina, Charlotte ]
| Charlotte, NC
| USA
| North America
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 28.
| [http://www.nottingham.edu.my/Geography/Newsitems/Establishing-Open-Source-Geospatial-Lab.aspx UNMC]
| Semenyih
| Malaysia
| Asia
| 2°56′46.03″N, 101°52′27.15″E
| website in development
|-
| 29.
| [http://www.utm.my/ Universiti Teknologi Malaysia] (UTM)
| Johor Bahru
| Malaysia
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 30.
| National College of Public Administration and Governance(NCPAG), University of the Philippines
| Manila
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 31.
| Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC)
| Quezon City
| Philippines
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 32.
| [http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/labinfo/ Lab for Spatial Informatics], IIIT Hyderabad
| Hyderabad
| India
| Asia
|
|
|-
| 33.
| Geospatial Research and Education Lab (GREL), Institute of Space Technology (IST)
| Islamabad
| Pakistan
| Asia
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 34.
| [http://www.up.ac.za/cgis University of Pretoria]
| Pretoria
| South Africa
| Africa
| -25.753609, 28.230346
|
|-
| 35.
| [http://www.rcmrd.org/ Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development] (RCMRD)
| Nairobi
| Kenya
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 36.
| University of Ghana
| Accra
| Ghana
| Africa
|
| in process of being established
|-
| 37.
| University of Melbourne
| Melbourne
| Australia
| Australia
|
|
|}

== Interested in adding your own node into the ICA-OSGeo Labs network? ==

As the lab network is expanding fast ,we have also setup nodal contacts for each regions

# Anne Ghisla - Asia & Australia
# Helena Mitasova - North America
# Charlie Schweik - South America
# Suchith Anand - Europe & Africa

Email Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk and cc Helena Mitasova ‎[hmitaso at ncsu.edu]‎, Charlie Schweik ‎[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]‎, Anne Ghisla [a.ghisla at gmail.com] to start the conversation and they will be happy to discuss details and guide you through the process.

The key requirements for establishing a local OSGL are:

(A) Both parties should work for the vision of the [[MOU_ICA|ICA-OSGeo MoU]] to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the future.

(B) Someone at your institution or organization should have a strong Geospatial knowledge and vision to lead this activity and build a team of people, locally.

(C) There should be a website established for your Open Source Geospatial Laboratory listing current research, people, and training information. This web presence will allow the other nodes in the network and others to understand and promote your local efforts around research and teaching of open source geospatial technologies and approaches.

From our end, we will promote the initiative widely through both OSGeo and ICA channels to help build up collaboration opportunities for the future. We will also do a joint press release to announce the initiative and start building collaborations. A primary collaborative initiative continues to be the creation and maintenance of shared open access educational resources (for example [http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/ the ELOGeo platform]). We will also add the info of all labs in the Open Geospatial Lab network node site within OSGeo website so that all participating labs urls are added and linked.

We especially welcome applications from universities, educational institutes, government organisations in developing countries to help develop capacity building in geospatial education by establishing Open Source Geo Labs.

== Meetings ==
; Next meeting:
* '''[[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-09-05]] 18.00 UTC'''

; Past Meetings:
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-07-29]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-05-02]] 14.00 UTC
* [[ICA OSGeo Lab Network 2013-06-06]] 14.00 UTC

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