Roel, Great excited to see your application. The application deadline is in LESS than two hours, so please get yours in!
Re: the project idea - my hope is binding work like this will help with overall library design and it would be awesome if you were to leverage the mapnik time to get windows build steps better and better. Dane On Apr 7, 2011, at 4:44 PM, Roel Vanhout wrote: > Hi all, > > > With the deadline for student proposals approaching, I'd like to put > in my candidacy for implementing the idea I put on the trac regarding > the php binding for mapnik. I put multiple ideas there but given the > number of excellent other proposals, I figured it's best that I > restrict myself to the one I feel most excited about, which is the php > extension. > > As I described, I think a php binding would be of great benefit to > mapnik, to get it more widely used. I realize it's more broadening > mapnik's scope rather than deepening the core mapnik functionality > like some of the other proposed GSoC projects are, but I don't think > that detracts from its potential. > > The first thing I would focus on is extending the functionality to > cover the whole range of mapnik functionality, and making it > compatible with mapnik2, also. A production quality binding needs a > full-coverage test suite and it needs a build toolchain that > integrates with the way other php extensions are build. > > A short profile of myself is also in order I think; I'm not the > traditional university student (but I do qualify under the GSoC rules > :) ). I'm part time law student at the university of Maastricht in the > Netherlands, I'm part time dad and part time progammer. I've been > programming professionally since I graduated with an applied > informatics degree in 2000, mostly in C++; but I've written a lot of > php code too. In my current job I work with geodata a lot and I've > written several map rendering implementations over the years (although > with different objectives than mapnik). > > > regards, > > Roel > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
