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OSGeo Accepted for Google Summer of Code 2008
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Hamish writes "Good news from the Open Source Geospatial Foundation: 'OSGeo is pleased to announce that Google has accepted OSGeo as mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008 program. This program provides funding for students to work on open source projects under the support of experienced mentors. The projects participating through OSGeo are
OpenLayers,
GDAL,
GRASS,
Mapbender,
Quantum GIS,
MapServer,
GeoServer,
GeoTools,
uDig, and
OpenJUMP/Degree.
Students interested in participating can find more information on OSGeo project ideas here and more information about the program as a whole here.'" See the story below for OSGeo's projects within Google's SoC 2007.
Students interested in participating can find more information on OSGeo project ideas here and more information about the program as a whole here.'" See the story below for OSGeo's projects within Google's SoC 2007.
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OSGeo Welcomes 16 Students to the Summer of Code
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chorner writes "This just in via Frank Warmerdam: 'OSGeo has selected sixteen students to participate in development efforts spread across the GDAL, GRASS, GeoTools, PostGIS, uDig, and GeoServer projects as part of the Google Summer of Code for 2007.
Google is providing funding for the selected students, while the
project communities are providing mentors to assist the students. A
full list of students, mentors and planned developments is available
at:
http://code.google.com/soc/osgeo/about.html
OSGeo thanks Google for it's support of this great program, and looks
forward to the participation of these students in our community.'"
Technology: GDAL2Tiles Summer of Code Project 7 comments
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st_0x0ef writes "From Berkaoui blog : "[...] Tiling and speed have always been issues with Internet Mapping — especially with Raster Images. Just recently Klokan Petr Pridal described his Summer of Code project as being able "to allow easy publishing of raster maps on the Internet. Your raster file (like TIFF/GeoTIFF, MrSID, ECW, JPEG2000, JPEG, PNG) is converted into a directory structure of small tiles ( TMS compatible ), which you can just copy to the webserver. Simple webpages with viewers based on Google Maps and OpenLayers are generated as well — so anybody can comfortably explore your maps on-line and you do not need to install or configure any special software (like mapserver) and the map displays very fast in the webbrowser. [...]"" See also this informative OSGeo wikipage on the project.
OSGeo Accepted for Google Summer of Code 2008
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