Google Summer of Code 2015 Ideas

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OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2015

The 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.

Students: check out the(Google Summer of Code Recommendations for Studentspage. If you need more information on how to apply you can contact all the mentors via the OSGeo-SoC mailing listsee below)

There is a Google SoC flyerto look at and post in appropriate places.
Ok, OSGeois involved in working with maps and things, but what kind of projects does it really do? Have a look at thelive blog feedto see what people are working on right now.
Mentors, there's an additional link providing some tips and specifying your responsibilities on the main OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2015wiki page.

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!

:GRASS GISSoC IdeasGRASS GISis 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!

:QGISSoC IdeasQGISis 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.

:GDALIdeasGDALis a C++ library for reading and writing geospatial data raster and vector formats.

: gvSIG is a free GIS project forgvSIGIdeasDesktop. The gvSIG project looks for students with Java or Python skills that want to develop new ideas on this software.

:OpticksIdeasOpticksis an extensibleremote sensingand imagery analysis desktop application. It provides a framework to process remote sensing data such asHyperspectral(HSI),Multispectral(MSI), andSynthetic aperture radar(SAR) imagery and video. The application is written in C++ and licensed under LGPL v2.1. Extensions are written using C++ or Python. You can review theavailable extensionsandfeature tourto get a better idea of what Opticks can do.

:OTBSoC IdeasORFEO ToolBox(OTB) is an open source library for remote sensing image processing.Targeted algorithms for high resolution optical images (Pleiades, SPOT, QuickBird, WorldView, Landsat, Ikonos), hyperspectral sensors (Hyperion) or SAR (TerraSarX, ERS, Palsar) are available. The software has been under active development since 2006 and is written in C++ and it includes also side projects also open source with GUI like Monteverdi. OTB has recently started the incubation process into OSGeo.

: MapServer is a Web Mapping Engine; an Open Source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web.MapserverSoC Ideas

:istSOSIdeasistSOS(Istituto Scienze della Terra Sensor Observation Service) is an implementation of the Sensor Observation Service (SOS) standard from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The development of istSOS was started in 2009 in order to provide a simple implementation of the SOS standard for the management, provision and integration of hydro-meteorological data collected in Canton Ticino (Switzerland). istSOS is entirely written in Python.

GSOC Ideas:is a web server that allows you to serve maps and data from a variety of formats to standard clients such as web browsers and desktop GIS applications. GeoServer works with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards Web Feature Service (WFS), Web Coverage Service (WCS), Web Processing Service (WPS) and Web Map Service (WMS) standards.GeoServer

The GeoServer team asks applicants to introduce themselves on the geoserver-devel list ( Communicating in public is a key success factor to open source development )

:GSOCGeoTools is an open source Java library for working with geospatial data, including both data access, data structures, processing and a powerful rendering engine. GeoTools is a modular library used in a wide range of web service, command line tools and desktop applications.GeoTools

: ZOO-Project is a WPS (Web Processing Service) open source project released under MIT/X-11 style license. It provides an OGC WPS compliant developer-friendly framework to create and chain WPS Web services.ZOO-ProjectSoc Ideas

:Osgeo-LiveSoC IdeasOSGeo-Liveis a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. It provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. It also contains sample datasets and documentation.

Guest projects

Like-minded geospatial projects to take part under OSGeo umbrella. If you wish your software project to be listed here, please contact Madi or Anne.

:pgRoutingIdeaspgRoutingextends the PostGIS / PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide geospatial routing functionality and more.

:PyWPSIdeasPyWPSis server implementation of OGC WPS standard on server side using Python programming language. Currently,new version of PyWPSis being done, were we would like to implement several new attractive features.

: The JGrasstools project is a geospatial modules library dedicated to hydrology and geomorphology. It is the base of the modules for uDig's Spatial Toolbox.JGrasstoolsanduDigSpatial Toolbox SoC Ideas

:OpenTripPlannerIdeasOpenTripPlanneris an open source multi-modal trip planner. It depends on open data in open standard file formats (GTFS and OpenStreetMap), includes a REST API for journey planning, a map-based Javascript client, and anAndroid App.

Don't see in the list the project you're interested in?

Contact them in their developers mailing list! Feel free to propose your own idea and get feedback!

I want to apply as a student

Before applying as a student, check out the Google Summer of Code Recommendations for Students page.

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

Important dates

March 2nd: Google announces accepted organizations.
Please start talking to the dev communities you are interested in now.
March 16: 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 27: Student application deadline.
April 27: Accepted student proposals are announced and Community Bonding Period begins. - May 25: 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 26: Mid-term evaluation begins
August 17-21: Pencils down! - August 28: Final evaluations
August 28: Students begin submitting required code samples to Google
August 31: Final results announced

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