Hi Andrey, Thanks for your submission.
In fact, there is another student interested in creating widgets for OpenLayers which is used heavily by the Geo-web industry. Perhaps you could coordinate. I think it would be nice to create an application (we call them Gadgets) similar to django's GeoDjango. You are welcome to peruse his application (and possibly add your own) on our wiki: http://docs.turbogears.org/GSoC/StudentProposals2008 cheers! -chris On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Andrey Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I started off applying for the Python Software Foundation GSoC but it > turned out that the project I was interested in was more appropriate > for TurboGears, so here I am. > > About me: > > I'm one of Greg Wilson's former students (another mentor signed up for > TurboGears and PSF). I've been working for almost a year at a small > startup (http://ideeinc.com/) where we develop visual search related > technology and web services. The majority of my experience is in > Python, while building web applications using Pylons/TurboGears/ > Django, as well as various other fun things like web service APIs, > multi-threaded apps, internal libraries and things relating to > distributed computing. > > Project of interest: > > I originally proposed this project to the PSF GSoC list but after some > discussion, it appears that it would be a better fit for the > TurboGears community. > > The project is weMap. The goal is to create an infrastructure to > facilitate the process of finding social services in the community, > allowing users easy access to a wide array of social services > including educational services, employment resources, recreation > agencies, health services, etc. in an interactive map format. > Initially, data will be made available by a variety of non-profit > organizations who collect and disseminate organizational directories. > As data is pulled from multiple sources, a significant amount of > development resources will be focused on harmonizing duplicated > records. > > The weMap effort is organized by Jane (CC'd), who approached me to act > as a mentor for it. > > During the effort to the completion of this project, we intend on > contributing back to TurboGears by building a reusable module for > database harmonization which would be pluggable into TurboGears. Also, > the project would involve integrating various geocoding services, so > tutorials for doing such things in TurboGears would also be published. > If anyone has any further ideas of how this project could further > benefit TurboGears, we are open to suggestions... > > While I'm at it, here's a draft of our formal TurboGears GSoC > application for the project: > > -- > > weMap - Database Tools and Widgets for TurboGears > > Summary > Create a database harmonizer tool and a database mapping interface > Tags > database, harmonize, mapping, administration, data duplication > Status > Draft > Mentor > Andrey Petrov > Description > TurboGears lacks a widget that facilitates database mapping. It > would be useful to develop a widget that allows for mapping columns > between source and target structures, while allowing users to > dynamically order multiple field mappings. For example, mapping > street_number, street_name, city to an address field and enforcing the > correct column ordering. Similarly, it would be a great asset to > TurboGears to provide a widget that does simple data harmonization. > The harmonization tool would find duplicate records based on a > criteria established by the administrator and flag these for further > processing. > > -- > > Please let me know if there's anything else that I'm missing. > > Thanks, > > Andrey > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
