Hi Carol, welcome to the uDig community. We are sure happy to have you on board with your interest in uDig related projects.
> My name is Carol Hansen, a Computer Science student in Chicago, finishing up > my senior year. I will be applying for Google Summer of Code 2012, and I was > so excited to see OSGeo as one of the participating organizations. > Primarily, I am interested in applying my degree to GIS. As far as my skills > and background, I am familiar with Java (currently taking a server-side > course and coding Java Servlets and JSPs), Ecplise and RAD, HTML/CSS, SQL, > tiny bit of Python (going over basic scripting in my web-GIS course this > semester), ArcGIS, GRASS, and Google Earth. For uDig the eclipse and GIS experiences will sure be of help. [...] > Here are a few of the projects I am interested in: > > uDIG Projects: > > Create an OSM editor in uDig that would be the first full GIS based editor > (ie. not just a graph editor with background maps) > Support powerful OSM data mining capabilities in uDig and Geotools (perform > queries on open street map not currently possible in existing OSM tools, but > relatively easy with Neo4j) These two projects could be more neo4j related, which would be the field of Craig. Maybe he can comment on this? > Support full set of geospatial operations as in PostGIS > Create a gis general purpose database plugin for uDig with hibernate (also > spatial). The plugin would expose extension points to register spatially and > nonspatially enabled classes. With such a plugin one would be able to rely > on the neo4j database support easily from any udig plugin without having to > wonder what database is backing the persistence. Keeping the interfaces > clear, it would be fairly easy to allow for seamless connection to neo4j as > to postgis. I would love to see this one in :) > KML Reader and Writer > > > What would be the next steps to get involved and contribute? The next step would be to find a mentor willing (== has time and interest) to tutor you during the summer of code. I think there are a few mentors available and some might also be free and interested. Let's see you get some answer. As for me, I am already in talk to mentor another student, so I am afraid I can't be of much help. > Thank you! Thank you for joining us, Ciao, Andrea > > Carol Hansen > > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
