Dear all,

Thanks to all the mentors, students and especially to OSGeo GSoC Administrators 2014(Anne Ghisla, Hamish Bowman and Dustan Adkins) for another successful organisation of OSGeo Google Summer of Code 2014  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas

All the projects done are excellent but i would to highlight one project which we did this year with the aim to build ideas for collaborative research for ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs for the future .

We have strong automated map generalization/schematization research in some of our research labs and thanks to Dr Luciene Delazari (Federal University of Parana, Brazil),  Piotr Pociask (GIS Support Sp, Warsaw) and Dr Mark Ware (University of South Wales) for supervising this excellent work on building the Schematization Plugin for QGIS and student Nishith Maheshwari (IIIT Hyderabad, India) for building this. This will now  enable more collaborative research ideas for the map generalization research community for extending this as an open schematization platform which other students in future can use to build upon. It is an excellent example of how we can build ideas for collaborative research for ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs for the future.

This will also help us build ideas for next year’s GSoC by having members of ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS labs network collaborate on other interesting ideas.

http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Nishithm

Great work all  and thanks for your contributions which help build the momentum for sharing knowledge for the benefit of all.

Best wishes,

Suchith

Dear All,

This might be of interest to your students...

The Google Summer of Code program is designed to encourage student participation in open source software development. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation is looking for students to join us in making 2014 the best Summer of Code yet!

We'll be offering successful student contributors a $5000 USD Stipend, enabling them to focus on their  project for three months. The project ideas range from the depths of computer science graph theory to the heights of 3D visualization and challenging cartography.

More details at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014_Ideas

We are also looking for good students for developing automated schematization functionalities for QGIS . This will then form platform for building future schematization research. If any of your students are interested please contact Dr Luciene Delazari.  

Details at http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014

Student application opens 10-21st March 2014.

https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/osgeo

More details of the whole program contact OSGeo GSoC Administrators 2014 - Anne Ghisla, Hamish Bowman and Dustan Adkins.

We look forward for your active participation.

Best wishes,

Suchith