Hei.. see my comments below Jody Garnett wrote:
> PS. Ideas for any of these email lists are not a problem; from last > years experience I would recommend spending effort on making sure the > ideas are communicated well. > PS. CCing a bunch of lists does not work (everyone get's bounce > messages as they hit "reply-to-all", and you need to tag in the OSGeo > discussion list. so ..it rather looks like one should use either a wiki or this google documents thing > >> As part of my efforts to be more active on the "open source >> geospatial community" I have agreed to help Frank Wammerdam with the >> Google Summer of Code coordination at the OSGeo. (Thanks to Paul >> Ramsey for some encouragement in this regard.) > thats nice >> >> I'd really like to see some GeoTools and JUMP/OpenJUMP projects make >> it in to the Summer of Code umbrella at the OSGeo. I am willing to >> prepare a Summer of Code proposal for a DXF reader/writer that we can >> contribute to GeoTools and use in JUMP/OpenJUMP and UDig. > aehm.. we (JUMP) currently has a DXF plugin by Michael Michaud? Do you now this? What about DWG? Why do you chosen this format (It is rather usefull for CAD Geometries than for GIS ) >> I am also willing to prepare a proposal to add some improvements and >> new features to JTS. I would also mentor both projects. >> > ok..In which direction? What about some triangulation, graph stuff, persistent topology? >> However, I don't know any students enrolled in programming courses >> that would be interested in this. I know some of my fellow >> JUMP/OpenJUMP developers and the GeoTools developers would be in a >> better position in this regard. If I prepare one or two of the >> proposals I mentioned will we be able to find interested students to >> participate? > mhm.. thats a critical point. At least at our university we do not have that much students interested. Because they are geographers with not that much knowledge in programming - if even. We are lucky about every student willing to write his masters in our division :o) So one might rather attract people from IT backgound? But if it is paid?? how knows.. my two cents stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
