Greetings!
My name is Jean-Denis Giguère. I will finish in early May my master thesis in Geographic Sciences. While finishing my thesis, I'm teaching an introductory course in GIS at Université de Sherbrooke. I give my course using several open source software. Grass + Qgis play a major role in that stack. Google Summer of Code offer me a very interesting opportunity to contribute back to the GRASS community. I have basic skills in programming. Although I'm more a GIS analyst than a programmer, I already succeed to produce substantial codes for production use for another open source project. My master thesis is about evaluation of an atmospheric simulation model related to light pollution. I'm really interested by software development processes from initial specification phase to deployment, including continuous QA activities, documentation, etc. Maybe because I study and teach in a "Applied Geomatic" department, decision making is a critical concern for me. GRASS offers a wonderful toolbox for many geospatial analysis. I think improvement of decision making tools will make GRASS even more powerful for many users. There is already an add-on for multicriteria decision analysis [1]. This add-on is a very interesting start, but I think we should offer more options. Firstly, I think MCDA tools are as important for vector analysis than for raster. The mcda plugin works only with raster data. Also, there are many interesting combination rules. I think we could add at least one other combination rule that would be useful for scenario evaluation. My reflexion is in a early stage, but I would be very glad to improve and document it. I would like to know is there is an interest in the community for this kind contribution. I'm interested by both your user and dev perspectives. Also, I'm willing to consider other GRASS projects for SOC. If they could be related to decision making, it would be nice, but it's not a condito sine qua non. Best regards, Jean-Denis cci. Gianluca Massei. Author of mcda add-on [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_AddOns#mcda _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
