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