On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 00:01, Kyoungduk Park <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank y'all so much for the inputs. This is honestly my first time ever > reaching out to an open source community as a developer and I am grateful I > did. I will discuss the topics with my professor, but regardless of if it > gets approved or not, I am willing to work on the 3D improvements for QGIS > whatsoever - sounds like a lot of fun. > > Andreas and Ismail: thank you again for the suggestions and referring to the > people:) > Tim and Nyall: would it be okay for me to reach out for a bit of guidance in > the very near future?
I am, sure! (I can give general guidance, but for anything solely within the 3d realm you'll need Martin's help too.) Nyall > > Best, > Eric Park > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 6:41 PM Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 08:52, Kyoungduk Park <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Howdy Andreas, >> > >> > Thank you much for getting back to me so quickly. I am currently on the >> > learning curve, trying to get myself familiar to the entire software. It >> > will probably take a bit of time for me to go over most features in the >> > program. >> > >> > From the topics you've listed, the 3D project definitely interests me a >> > lot, since I've been practicing and programming computer graphics project >> > using OpenGL for the past couple of months. On that note, if you or >> > anybody can advise or guide me sporadically throughout the year, that >> > would be very much appreciated. Please let me know about it. Thank you so >> > much again! >> >> I'd say a GREAT project would be adding support for point cloud data >> to QGIS + QGIS 3D. It'd be a lot of fun, you'd get to know a lot of >> useful libraries (like PDAL), you'd learn a lot about hot-topic >> technology, and you'd learn a lot about the internals of how QGIS (and >> other GIS) work. And you'd be adding a feature which is highly >> desirable to a huge number of QGIS users. >> >> Nyall >> >> >> > >> > Best, >> > Eric Park >> > >> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:19 AM Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Eric, >> >> >> >> Thanks for reaching out about your college project. >> >> >> >> I am not a core developer but a contributor and power user. >> >> >> >> We normally have GSoC project almost every year, but I guess your setup >> >> would also work well. I am positive that we can find a mentor (project >> >> sponsor) to help you get started and for occasional support. But the >> >> potential mentor probably depends a bit on the area of code you are >> >> working on. >> >> >> >> Are you familiar with QGIS as a user? >> >> >> >> Areas in QGIS that would benefit from developer attention, are: >> >> >> >> - 3D (e.g. proper highlighting for feature identification and better >> >> integration with 2D (e.g. show camera position in 2D, allow reposition of >> >> camera in 2D)) >> >> >> >> - Creating a 3D model sharing repository >> >> >> >> - Processing, incl. the graphical model builder >> >> >> >> - ETL functionality in Processing >> >> >> >> - Integrating the QGIS time manager plugin in QGIS core >> >> >> >> - the Report builder (e.g. create a preview mode for reports) >> >> >> >> - the Georeferencer (support for georeferencing vector features) >> >> >> >> These are just some ideas ... of course it depends on your interests, >> >> skills and more. >> >> >> >> Greetings, >> >> >> >> Andreas >> >> >> >> On 2019-09-10 02:13, Kyoungduk Park wrote: >> >> >> >> Dear QGIS Developers, >> >> >> >> Please forgive me if this is not the best way to reach out to y'all, and >> >> please do let me know if so. >> >> >> >> I am a current college senior majoring in CS at Tufts University, located >> >> near Boston, USA. For my engineering degree, I need to complete a >> >> year-long senior capstone project. Now, I am a huge fan of free software >> >> and maps, and I have been programming for the past two years on >> >> C/C++/Python. I stumbled upon QGIS upon searching possible projects, and >> >> have been thinking wildly about devoting my last school year to >> >> contributing to its development. I have been fiddling around with QGIS >> >> for the past couple of days, and will take a couple more until I get the >> >> basic hang of it. >> >> >> >> I currently have a team of a couple of CS students including myself, an >> >> applied math major student, and might possibly have a human factors >> >> engineering student. The only caveat right now is that we need a project >> >> "sponsor" who would simply have to communicate with my team and give >> >> feedbacks/guidance. >> >> >> >> We would really appreciate if anyone can suggest a cool year-long >> >> project/idea, while we also would be searching for our own. More >> >> importantly, is there anyone who can possibly be our project sponsor? >> >> Please let me know if so. Thank you for your time. >> >> >> >> With best regards, >> >> Eric Park >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> QGIS-Developer mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > QGIS-Developer mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
