Hi

Another area that could really use a lot of love is the reporting framework. 
Nyall has a great start in place but there are a long list of features that 
would take if from ‘great’ to ’top notch’. @Nyall could we share your google 
doc brain dump of reporting TODO’s here?

Regards

Tim

> On 11 Sep 2019, at 18:59, Ismail Sunni <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> As Andreas said, if you have student status, GSoC is a really great way to 
> contribute to the project. It offers you the opportunity to get mentors and 
> the stipend also. Unfortunately, GSoC is finished for this year. You can 
> apply again around March next year (assuming Google continues the project). 
> 
> Regarding QGIS 3D, Tim Sutton has compiled some interesting improvement ideas 
> here [1]. You can also find some interesting ideas in from this year GSoC 
> Ideas [2].
> 
> Thank you much for getting back to me so quickly. I am currently on the 
> learning curve, trying to get myself familiar to the entire software. It will 
> probably take a bit of time for me to go over most features in the program.
> 
> QGIS is really big. I think it's better to focus on some parts, rather than 
> checking all of the features :)
> 
> Best regards
> 
> [1] 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1efgDilOpw_mT1clZRi8er_5ZwW7ZVQB97gQqaot6xXs/edit#
>  
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1efgDilOpw_mT1clZRi8er_5ZwW7ZVQB97gQqaot6xXs/edit#>
> [2] 
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2019-Ideas#qgis-3d-improvements
>  
> <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2019-Ideas#qgis-3d-improvements>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 8:33 AM Andreas Neumann <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> I am just a QGIS user and contributor, occasional Python programmer. I am 
> sorry, I can't mentor you in C++ development. However, I do think, that, if 
> you are interested in 3D development, that there is a large range of possible 
> improvements you can work on.
> 
> The persons to ask about mentoring are the developers from LutraConsulting 
> (Martin Dobias, Peter Petrik) - there might be others. We just recently had a 
> Google summer of code project for improvements in 3D - see 
> https://github.com/ismailsunni/QGIS/wiki/GSoC-2019---QGIS-3D-Improvement 
> <https://github.com/ismailsunni/QGIS/wiki/GSoC-2019---QGIS-3D-Improvement>
> It would be nice, if your project would have similar results for improving 
> the QGIS project.
> 
> As I mentioned, here are some potential improvements I can see about 3D (I am 
> sure other people have additional ideas):
> 
> - Proper highlighting of objects when using the "Identify features" tool: 
> either stroke polygon edges with a hightlight color or show a 3D bounding box 
> in the highlight color
> 
> - Allow setting camera position in 2D view for 3D view
> 
> - Support of animated objects: moving objects, such as cars, boats, etc.
> 
> - 3D bookmarks (storing camera position and viewing angle)
> 
> - integration with time manager
> 
> - texture support for objects
> 
> - build a repository for sharing 3D object models (such as buildings, trees, 
> benches, other objects)
> 
> I am sure there are more ideas. 3D in QGIS is still young and that means a 
> lot of features are still missing.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 2019-09-11 00:52, Kyoungduk Park wrote:
> 
>> Howdy Andreas,
>>  
>> Thank you much for getting back to me so quickly. I am currently on the 
>> learning curve, trying to get myself familiar to the entire software. It 
>> will probably take a bit of time for me to go over most features in the 
>> program.
>>  
>> From the topics you've listed, the 3D project definitely interests me a lot, 
>> since I've been practicing and programming computer graphics project using 
>> OpenGL for the past couple of months. On that note, if you or anybody can 
>> advise or guide me sporadically throughout the year, that would be very much 
>> appreciated. Please let me know about it. Thank you so much again!
>>  
>> Best,
>> Eric Park
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:19 AM Andreas Neumann <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>> 
>> Thanks for reaching out about your college project.
>> 
>> I am not a core developer but a contributor and power user.
>> 
>> We normally have GSoC project almost every year, but I guess your setup 
>> would also work well. I am positive that we can find a mentor (project 
>> sponsor) to help you get started and for occasional support. But the 
>> potential mentor probably depends a bit on the area of code you are working 
>> on.
>> 
>> Are you familiar with QGIS as a user?
>> 
>> Areas in QGIS that would benefit from developer attention, are:
>> 
>> - 3D (e.g. proper highlighting for feature identification and better 
>> integration with 2D (e.g. show camera position in 2D, allow reposition of 
>> camera in 2D))
>> 
>> - Creating a 3D model sharing repository
>> 
>> - Processing, incl. the graphical model builder
>> 
>> - ETL functionality in Processing
>> 
>> - Integrating the QGIS time manager plugin in QGIS core
>> 
>> - the Report builder (e.g. create a preview mode for reports)
>> 
>> - the Georeferencer (support for georeferencing vector features)
>> 
>> These are just some ideas ... of course it depends on your interests, skills 
>> and more.
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> Andreas
>> 
>> On 2019-09-10 02:13, Kyoungduk Park wrote:
>> 
>> Dear QGIS Developers,
>>  
>> Please forgive me if this is not the best way to reach out to y'all, and 
>> please do let me know if so.
>>  
>> I am a current college senior majoring in CS at Tufts University, located 
>> near Boston, USA. For my engineering degree, I need to complete a year-long 
>> senior capstone project. Now, I am a huge fan of free software and maps, and 
>> I have been programming for the past two years on C/C++/Python. I stumbled 
>> upon QGIS upon searching possible projects, and have been thinking wildly 
>> about devoting my last school year to contributing to its development. I 
>> have been fiddling around with QGIS for the past couple of days, and will 
>> take a couple more until I get the basic hang of it.
>>  
>> I currently have a team of a couple of CS students including myself, an 
>> applied math major student, and might possibly have a human factors 
>> engineering student. The only caveat right now is that we need a project 
>> "sponsor" who would simply have to communicate with my team and give 
>> feedbacks/guidance.
>>  
>> We would really appreciate if anyone can suggest a cool year-long 
>> project/idea, while we also would be searching for our own. More 
>> importantly, is there anyone who can possibly be our project sponsor? Please 
>> let me know if so. Thank you for your time.
>>  
>> With best regards,
>> Eric Park
>>  
>> 
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