Google Summer of Code has announced the opening of applications for Mentor organizations. Pamela Fox mentioned awhile ago that Mapstraction may be a good fit. http://socghop.appspot.com/ I would like to brainstorm if we have identifiable projects, and preferably even interested students, that would like to work together on putting in some applications. A couple of initial possibilities: - Integrate/support Google''s open source Marker Manager to be used with any provider in Mapstraction - Map editing (drawing/removing/editing features and attributes) - and "offline" support through Gears - Build out documentation, tutorials, materials for Mapstraction - More advanced spatial functionality - Build/support Mapstraction plugins to other frameworks (Rails, Drupal, GWT) - there are already some here, so could be into others or extending Any other thoughts, or students? Andrew -- Andrew Turner m: 248.982.3609 e: andrew at highearthorbit.com t: @ajturner b: http://highearthorbit.com w: http://geocommons.com Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography
version 2? ;) Some great ideas there. Nowhere near as adventurous, but I thought earlier it would be nice to have an online ''playground'' to tryout, demo and play with the mapstraction library. 2009/3/10 Andrew Turner <andrew at highearthorbit.com>> Google Summer of Code has announced the opening of applications for Mentor > organizations. Pamela Fox mentioned awhile ago that Mapstraction may be a > good fit. > > http://socghop.appspot.com/ > > I would like to brainstorm if we have identifiable projects, and preferably > even interested students, that would like to work together on putting in > some applications. A couple of initial possibilities: > - Integrate/support Google''s open source Marker Manager to be used with > any provider in Mapstraction > - Map editing (drawing/removing/editing features and attributes) - and > "offline" support through Gears > - Build out documentation, tutorials, materials for Mapstraction > - More advanced spatial functionality > - Build/support Mapstraction plugins to other frameworks (Rails, Drupal, > GWT) - there are already some here, so could be into others or extending > > Any other thoughts, or students? > > Andrew > > -- > Andrew Turner > m: 248.982.3609 e: andrew at highearthorbit.com t: @ajturner > b: http://highearthorbit.com w: http://geocommons.com > Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography > > > _______________________________________________ > Mapstraction mailing list > Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com > http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mapstraction.com/pipermail/mapstraction-mapstraction.com/attachments/20090310/57eb0142/attachment.htm>
+1 for getting Mapstraction in GSOC. I''d love to be a mentor for students working on it. I think v2 should be a definite project, unless you can get it done before the summer. It''s not as worthwhile to do all that other work if the library changes radically. (I haven''t looked to see how much of an interface change there is - if it''s negligible, perhaps it can be done @ same time as other stuff). fyi- The playground would probably only take a few days to make if you want to build off what we use: http://interactivesampler.appspot.com/ (it''s open sourced here: http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/source/browse/#svn/trunk/interactive_samples) I thin On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Rob <rob at thegecko.org> wrote:> version 2? ;) > Some great ideas there. Nowhere near as adventurous, but I thought earlier > it would be nice to have an online ''playground'' to tryout, demo and play > with the mapstraction library. > > 2009/3/10 Andrew Turner <andrew at highearthorbit.com> >> >> Google Summer of Code has announced the opening of applications for Mentor >> organizations. Pamela Fox mentioned awhile ago that Mapstraction may be a >> good fit. >> >> http://socghop.appspot.com/ >> >> I would like to brainstorm if we have identifiable projects, and >> preferably even interested students, that would like to work together on >> putting in some applications. A couple of initial possibilities: >> ?- Integrate/support Google''s open source Marker Manager to be used with >> any provider in Mapstraction >> ?- Map editing (drawing/removing/editing features and attributes) - and >> "offline" support through Gears >> ?- Build out documentation, tutorials, materials for Mapstraction >> ?- More advanced spatial functionality >> ?- Build/support Mapstraction plugins to other frameworks (Rails, Drupal, >> GWT) - there are already some here, so could be into others or extending >> >> Any other thoughts, or students? >> >> Andrew >> >> -- >> Andrew Turner >> m: 248.982.3609 e: andrew at highearthorbit.com t: @ajturner >> b: http://highearthorbit.com ? ?w: http://geocommons.com >> Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapstraction mailing list >> Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com >> http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Mapstraction mailing list > Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com > http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com > >
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:26 PM, pamela fox <pammyla.fox at gmail.com> wrote:> +1 for getting Mapstraction in GSOC. I''d love to be a mentor for > students working on it.Yes - a good primary question here is our doing outreach to engage students early.> > I think v2 should be a definite project, unless you can get it done > before the summer.Correct - I didn''t consider this because I think we''ll be primarily done with v2 before summer. In fact, I''d like to have it ready by Where2.0. It''s quite far along and the next steps will mostly be implementing the various providers. Not what I imagine is a "student" summer job - and in fact want to use it as a way to encourage more contributors.> It''s not as worthwhile to do all that other work if > the library changes radically. (I haven''t looked to see how much of an > interface change there is - if it''s negligible, perhaps it can be done > @ same time as other stuff).Right - all these projects should be done *with* v2.> > > fyi- > The playground would probably only take a few days to make if you want > to build off what we use: > http://interactivesampler.appspot.com/Super-neat. This would be a good one. Sounds like blog post and outreach time.> <http://interactivesampler.appspot.com/> > (it''s open sourced here: > > http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-examples/source/browse/#svn/trunk/interactive_samples > ) > I thin > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Rob <rob at thegecko.org> wrote: > > version 2? ;) > > Some great ideas there. Nowhere near as adventurous, but I thought > earlier > > it would be nice to have an online ''playground'' to tryout, demo and play > > with the mapstraction library. > > > > 2009/3/10 Andrew Turner <andrew at highearthorbit.com> > >> > >> Google Summer of Code has announced the opening of applications for > Mentor > >> organizations. Pamela Fox mentioned awhile ago that Mapstraction may be > a > >> good fit. > >> > >> http://socghop.appspot.com/ > >> > >> I would like to brainstorm if we have identifiable projects, and > >> preferably even interested students, that would like to work together on > >> putting in some applications. A couple of initial possibilities: > >> - Integrate/support Google''s open source Marker Manager to be used with > >> any provider in Mapstraction > >> - Map editing (drawing/removing/editing features and attributes) - and > >> "offline" support through Gears > >> - Build out documentation, tutorials, materials for Mapstraction > >> - More advanced spatial functionality > >> - Build/support Mapstraction plugins to other frameworks (Rails, > Drupal, > >> GWT) - there are already some here, so could be into others or extending > >> > >> Any other thoughts, or students? > >> > >> Andrew > >> > >> -- > >> Andrew Turner > >> m: 248.982.3609 e: andrew at highearthorbit.com t: @ajturner > >> b: http://highearthorbit.com w: http://geocommons.com > >> Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mapstraction mailing list > >> Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com > >> > http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mapstraction mailing list > > Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com > > http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com > > > > >-- Andrew Turner mobile: 248.982.3609 andrew at fortiusone.com http://highearthorbit.com http://geocommons.com Helping build the Geospatial Web Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mapstraction.com/pipermail/mapstraction-mapstraction.com/attachments/20090310/e0b3b924/attachment.htm>