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This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Google Summer of Code program.

Our main repositories can be found on our Github organization page, but a clearer listing with descriptions is on our main developers page

Important -- to learn how to contribute to Public Lab software, see our Contributing to Public Lab software page

Who to contact

Generally, with programming related topics, reach out on plots-dev - the Public Lab developers discussion list shown in the left sidebar.

For active Google Summer Code projects, use plots-gsoc - the GSoC discussion list.

For chatting and real-time meetings, use the Gitter chat room or type directly in here (if you have already authenticated on another page):

Contribution guidelines

Our Contributing to Public Lab Software page has our preferred guidelines for submitting changes. Please read it over!

We also love it when students show that they can work well with us by checking out some of our easier issues in PublicLab.org, Spectral Workbench, or MapKnitter, and even submitting a pull request. This gives us confidence that you've read our contribution guidelines and would be ready to jump into a project.

How to post a proposal

(for students)

Please first contact the above plots-dev list, and tell us what you're interested in and a bit about your experience. It's also great to hear if you've forked one of our codebases) and installed it on a test server. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten!

Once your idea is more developed, please post a research note describing your proposal in detail. Tag it gsoc and gsoc-201[X]. Here is the template we used last year.

This To Be Updated for 2017: Post a proposal here -- and view proposals posted so far

Ideas

Map of projects

https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/milestone/7 https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/1070

Email notification overhaul

Part of: https://publiclab.org / https://github.com/publiclab/plots2

Description: Scheduling, per-user settings, batched tag-based updates, log, de-duplication -- see https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/milestone/6

List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com

Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails

Difficulty Level: medium

Potential mentors: Jeff Warren

ImageSequencer

Part of: https://github.com/jywarren/image-sequencer

Description: An experimental, non-destructive image processing/analysis system based on the mental model of a storyboard: each change to the image produces a new version of the image, rather than affecting the original.

List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com

Prerequisites: JavaScript, possibly Node.js

Difficulty Level: medium/hard

Potential mentors: Jeff Warren

Expanded Rich Wikis

Part of: https://publiclab.org / https://github.com/publiclab/plots2

Description: An expansion of the Rich Wikis project, this project would create more interactive and responsive interfaces for authoring documents, from form generators (open source Google Forms) to embedded maps and even spreadsheets or in-line file viewers. The Public Lab Wiki is the backbone of our co-created knowledge base, and it could be a lot more alive!

Learn more about our nascent "short codes" system here: https://publiclab.org/wiki/power-tags#Inline+tags

List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com

Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails

Difficulty Level: medium

Potential mentors: Jeff Warren, Liz Barry

Wiki discussion

Collaborative analytics

Old ideas list

Here are other project ideas we're interested in; however, we are also interested in any major feature request listed in our top project repository issue trackers, at Spectral Workbench, PublicLab.org, or MapKnitter -- so contact the plots-dev list (see above) if anything there interests you!

Mapknitter Annotations

Part of: Mapknitter.org

Description: building on 2014 mapknitter annotations project to get it live and integrated into Mapknitter. Read more on the state of development..

List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com

Prerequisites:

Difficulty Level: hard

Potential mentors: Jeff Warren, Liz Barry

Distortable image ordering in MapKnitter

Part of: MapKnitter, Leaflet.DistortableImage

Description: This project is for a long requested feature on our most popular websoftware -- being able to choose which image shows up on top of your map! Tackling this would be a huge contribution to community cartography. Currently, images are automatically ordered by their geographic extent: bigger images end up on the bottom, little images on top, with no way for the mapmaker to manually reorder them. Longer story: Create simple methods for ordering images in Leaflet.DistortableImage, the heart of MapKnitter, and saving these asynchronously in MapKnitter. Modification of export system to accept an order parameter.

List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com

Links:

Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/jQuery

Difficulty level: medium

Potential mentors: Diana Di Leonardo, Jeff Warren

Queue-based MapKnitter export system

Part of: MapKnitter

Description: De-couple MapKnitter main app from GDAL-based export queue to enable better scaling of exports and fewer interruptions of primary MapKnitter.org service during large exports.

List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com

Links:

Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, GDAL, asynchronous queue-based server architecture, Amazon S3

Difficulty level: medium

Potential mentors: Jeff Warren, Bryan Bonvallet, Dan Henry

Commenting on specific wavelengths in Spectral Workbench

Part of: Spectral Workbench

Description: Enable comments on specific wavelengths which highlight those wavelengths in the displayed spectrum graph.

List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com

Links: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench/issues/45

Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, possibly d3.js

Difficulty level: easy

Potential mentors: Jeff Warren

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