Google Summer of Code in Geoinformatics

Jan JežekUniversity of West Bohemia in Pilsen

Google Summer of Code in Geoinformatics

Table of Content What is GSoC How does GSoC work? GSoC 2006 Statistics GSoC in Geoinformatics 2006 GSoC in Geoinformatics 2007 (new!!!)

What is Google Summer of Code Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program

that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects.

Project for student developers Project for mentoring organizations and Open

Source communities Project for Google

Students perspective

(L)earn a lot!!! Get stipend – 4 500 USD Get involved in Open Source

Development Get involved in real word programming Meat other specialist – community core

members

Communities Perspective

Get new code – new functionality Get new developers Get money – 500 USD per successful student

Google perspective

Google has a lot of Open Source project Advertisement Recruitment process

How GSoC works – preliminary part

Start during Spring Google addressed Open Source communities Open Source communities prepares ideas Students make proposals Accepted application are announced Mentors get in touch with students 28. May – students start to work (at home)

How GSoC works – main part

Accepted application – student get 500 USD 17. July – mentors make evaluation - when

positive student receive 2000 USD End of August – final evaluation – students

receive 2000 USD and mentoring organizations receive 500 USD

Communication

Mail list (community list, Google GSoC list) Weekly reports IRC meetings SVN – code review FAQ

GSoC 2006 statistics

GSoC 2006 Statistics

6388 Applications 3044 Applicants 1260 Mentors 630 Accepted Students 456 Schools 102 Open Source Organizations 90 Countries

Projekty u jednotlivých organizací

Statistiky

Project focused on Geoinformatics - 2006

Mentoring organization Refractions Research Project focused on GeoTools and uDig

GDAL ImageIO integration uDig GPS Record Import and Spatial Report

Processing Coordinate System Transformations

Project focused on Geoinformatics - 2007

Mentoring organization OSGeo Open Source communities:

GDAL, GeoServer, GeoTools, GRASS, MapGuide, MapServer, OpenJUMP, PostGIS, uDig

OSGeo projects GRASS Modules for line generalization and smoothing, GDAL Raster

Driver for PNG/JPG Tile Structure + gdal2tiles utility, Materialized Views with Geometric Support, Plugins for multidimensional raster data sources, Caching data in uDig, JtileCache, Shortest path in free (vector) space avoiding obstacles module in GRASS, GDAL: KML read support for the existing driver, New Transformation Algorithms for GeoTools and uDig, Coverage model and operations for PostGIS, GeoServer Style Editor, Implementation of An Interactive GeoRSS tool in uDig, A Synthetic Aperture RADAR Processor using GDAL, 3D Rendering Pipeline for GeoTools, OGC WMS GDAL driver, 3Dimensional Rendering Pipeline Component for GIS Servers

Conclusion

GSoC approach Takes place during summer Students are accordingly honoured Projects are focused on real software products Tree party mentoring organizations It's fun!!

Thanks for your attention