[Marble-devel] GSOC Introduction

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi Mihai,

thanks for your introduction and welcome to Marble development :-)

On 04/01/2013 02:56 PM, Mihai Neacsu wrote:
> My name is Mihai Neacsu and I am studying Computer Science at 
> Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania. This summer I want to 
> contribute and be a part of the Marble team.
>
> I've come to know about Marble from my brother, he uses Marble Touch 
> on his N950 everyday because he is travelling a lot.
>
> I'd love to work on extending Marble capabilities and make it possible 
> to syncronize a user's Marble instances. I love jogging in the morning 
> and because I'm not studying in my hometown I have to rely on a map 
> application in order to find a good place to run. I think it's a great 
> idea to save tracks or routes for activities on a cloud space.

Yes, indeed. I'd love to see a mobile "workout" Marble activity or app 
that saves tracks to owncloud, which can later be analyzed in Marble on 
a desktop. That also calls for some nice related visualization tasks 
like showing the speed or height along a track by color [0].

>
> I'm not new to the cloud syncronization theme. A few weeks ago I 
> participated at a hackathon where I had the chance to work on building 
> Android app that syncs taken photos with a cloud sharing service and 
> posts a comment with the photo url on a Github related open issue.
> Right now at school, for one of our classes we have team project 
> assignment and we chose to make a file sharing web application, we're 
> using Python and Flask for the server side, but that's a whole 
> different story, I'll share the link with you guys when it's done :D.
>
> C++ is my language of choice and I have used PyQt on Jeopy, an 
> open-source quiz game that features trivia in computer science and it 
> is used in some of our first year’s classes for the undergraduates 
> student in order to help them recap course material. However I have 
> never used Qt or Javascript but I'm absolutely sure it's not an issue 
> catching up with them.
>
> I've just managed to compile Marble and it would great if you had 
> suggestions for some entry-level bugs or assignments I should look into.
>

Earlier today I updated the "featured tasks" in [1] with GSoC specific 
ones. The other tabs on that website have more tasks and bugs to work 
on. If you find something interesting, give me a call to clear up the 
details (ideally via IRC in #marble at Freenode, my nick is Earthwings. 
Usually the fastest communication).

@other prospective GSoC students reading this: Please make sure to 
introduce yourself here or via a mail to me or one of the other mentors 
mentioned in [2]. As a bonus you get a lot more details in a private 
mail :-)

Regards,
Dennis

[0] https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=110130#p259669
[1] http://marble.kde.org/dashboard.php
[2] http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2013/Ideas#Marble

>
> Best Regards,
> Mihai Neacsu
>