Thank you so much, Nyall and Martin. I will get back to you in a couple weeks when I will actually start. Meanwhile, I probably will explore more of the application features on QGIS and specify my project idea. Hope y'all have a good weekend!
Best, Eric Park On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 6:28 PM Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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