Re: [Geotools-devel] 2007 Google SoC Student Quit

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

Fine - Simone then.

Hi Gabriel - apparently you are missed Gabriel.
By Gabriel.
Jody
PS> And Simone.
> Sounds great Gabriel - what can we do on this end to make things easier 
> for you to get going?
>
> Cheers,
> Jody
>   
>> Hi guys,
>> I have a student that is about to do a 4 months intern with us. If we agree
>> I can have him covering the missing guys. We already discussed with him
>> about what he could work on.
>>
>> We were thinking about two things mainly related to the Postgis datastore
>> which would provide benefits for GeoTools but also uDig and GeoServer.
>>
>> 1> We have been talking during the last IRC to the possibility to adding
>> hints to the geotools query interface for better control over the behaviour
>> of the datastore. I talked with the guy about trying to work in this
>> direction to add support for simplification for faster WMS support with big
>> datasets.
>>
>> 2> There is one thing that I have been wondering about lately in order to
>> improve support for Postgis. I talked about it with aaime last week. I have
>> seen that inside Postgis svn for jdbc there are experiments for retrieving
>> JTS objects directly or better Java2D objects. I think that beside what I
>> stated in point 1 it would be really great to have for postgis an approach
>> similar to the one that exists in uDig for shapefile. I am thinking about a
>> specialized renderer that will avoid the chain pggeometry --> JTS -->Java2D
>> shape.
>> Me or better Alessio could mentor the student but we would be also hoping to
>> get some help from  Jesse Eichar who's the one responsible for the
>> ShapeRenderer.
>>
>> What do you think, should I talk to him about this opportunity?
>>
>> I am sure that within tomorrow 2 pm (UTC+2) I will have an answer from him
>> (yes or no).
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Simone.
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: geo...@li...
>> [mailto:geo...@li...] On Behalf Of Cory
>> Horner
>> Sent: giovedì 14 giugno 2007 20.55
>> To: Sunburned Surveyor
>> Cc: Jac...@fh...; Geotools-Devel list
>> Subject: Re: [Geotools-devel] 2007 Google SoC Student Quit
>>
>> Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> One of our 2007 Google SoC Students has quit, as you can see below. I
>>> was going to help Jody mentor this guy over the summer, but it looks
>>> like he must have gotten a full-time girlfriend or something. :]
>>>
>>> Does anyone want to comment before I get a hold of Frank Wammerdam
>>> with the OSGeo and Google?
>>>     
>>>       
>> If we can line up another student FAST, google may let us take on 
>> another project...
>>
>> Anyone know any hungry students?
>>
>> Cory.
>>
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