[Geotools-devel] Fun stuff to do (was Employment Opportunities at The Open Planning Project)

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

Hrm? not sure we really want to encourage use of the devel lists in t=
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manner (perhaps a posting on your website in the future?).  I have se=
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a few lists go wrong in this manner (prag programmer for example). Bu=
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as long as the subject is in the open Refractions usually interested =
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hiring as well. It is a consulting company, so geotools work is often=
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against a timeline with a set goal in mind.

Lets treat the TOPP posting as a list of Fun stuff to do:

> This position will include working with
> David Blasby and other TOPP employees.

- check! Working with dave is fun. Working with dave is available to =
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volunteer of geoserver, geotools, and hopefully udig (if I can tempt =
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with some SLD work)

> Core Responsibilities:
> =95=09Bug fixing, testing, and documentation to existing GeoTools a=
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> GeoServer code

- check! I repeat the documentation line, documentation is fun and cu=
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down on email for everyone.
In particular we need to go over our tutorials before 2.1.0 is releas=
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(and update or remove as required).
- jg: datastore tutorial (convert to FeatureCollection syntax)
- jg: property data store (ie advanced) convert to AbstractDataStore2

> =95=09Involvement in new services and architecture of GeoServer
- check! I want to work on this (well I will anyways), dave should we=
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attack the geoserver devel list, or continue discussions on the OSI l=
ist?

> =95=09Involvement in data hosting and applications built on top of =
GeoServer
- catalog! Catalog seems to be stupidly important (James made contact=
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with some guys from rome last week), let help them out as lack of=
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catalog is holding everyone up. (Ask James, Jody or Dblasby)
- FeatureType! This is so needed, we have three ideas on the table (w=
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just need to draw up a picture of each and choose which one we like t=
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most) (ask Jody)
- FeatureTypeInfo or Registry - porting some nice udig code to geotoo=
ls
- Joins (found out the Catalog api supports joins, basically supports=
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more then one filter with a join taking place implicitly on matched=
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attributes - ie magic) (talk to cholmes, jody, james)
- OSGi - giving geotools a professional plugin system (hints don't cu=
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it) (talk to Justin)
- Versioning! I know dave is interested in the idea of Feature versio=
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(or save points, or long term transaction support) (ask Dave, or Jody=
)
- Web Process Service - ask James
- Feature Portrayal Service (or SLD 1.1)- ask Richard or James
- fast raster support (GDAL - I think that was the name of the raster=
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library) - ask Jesse

> Send r=E9sum=E9 and cover letter to ja...@op... .

Do geotools developers need/want more exposure? We have a couple "tea=
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pages in the wiki if people want to update their bio (although it see=
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that would best be left as a description on your confluence profile).

I certaintly got plenty of oppertunity to credit Martin with a bunch =
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the CRS work during the conference last week - people are very=20
interested in what we are doing.

Jody