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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
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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
Third party mentoring organizations
It's fun!!
Thanks for your attention