Google Code In 2017 Tasks

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Effort for a Task

• Each task is expected to take 3-5 hours of work to complete
• Students have at least 3 days to complete the task

Types of Tasks

There are 5 types of Code-in Tasks in general:

Code

Tasks related to writing or refactoring code

Documentation/Training

Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more

Outreach/Research

Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions

Quality Assurance

Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality

User Interface

Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction

Beginner Tasks

• A student can only complete a total of 2 beginner tasks
• Each OSGeo project should specify that a task is a beginner task by including "[BEGINNER]" at the end of the task name

Example Tasks

• Haiku project's 2016 tasks: https://codein.withgoogle.com/archive/2016/organization/5146925732986880/task/
  • Haiku project's tasks in json format: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pulkomandy/GCITool/master/tasks.json
• "Install and open project XXX and take a screenshot showing the interface, with your Code-in dashboard in the background"
• "Fix an issue in the tracker for project XXX [DIFFICULT]"
• "Present the project XXX to your class [BEGINNER]"

Project Tasks

Choose tasks from any of the OSGeo projects below (these are official OSGeo projects, projects in OSGeo incubation, and OSGeo community projects):

Content Management Systems

GeoNode

official website: http://geonode.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Desktop

GRASS GIS

official website: http://grass.osgeo.org/

mentors: Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi

more info: http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GCI_Ideas_2017

#	Name	Level	Description	Keywords	Mentor	Ticket
1	Create a screenshot for the next 74 release announcement	ADVANCED	For this task...	documentation	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
2	Design the t-shirt for the next code-sprint	BEGINNER	For this task...	marketing	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
3	Add examples to manual pages	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
4	Make new tutorial videos for GRASS GIS	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	marketing	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
5	Write a short blog entry about GRASS GIS (or a certain module)	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	marketing	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
6	Enhance the visual index	ADVANCED	For this task...	coding,C	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
7	Make screenshots to populate the visual change log in new features pages (e.g., for New Features GRASS 7.4)	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
8	Create icons/phrases to include in sticker sheets	BEGINNER	For this task...	marketing	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
9	Give a talk about GRASS GIS to classmates	BEGINNER	For this task...	marketing	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
8	Submit a patch for a certain bug or enhancement ticket	ADVANCED	For this task...	coding,C	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi
9	Contribute tests for modules	ADVANCED	For this task...	coding,C	Veronica Andreo, Luca Delucchi

gvSIG

official website: http://www.gvsig.com/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Marble

official website: http://marble.kde.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Opticks

official website: http://opticks.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Virtual Terrain Project

official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Virtual_Terrain_Project

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

QGIS

official website: http://qgis.org

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

#	Name	Level	Description	Keywords	Mentor	Ticket
1	Enhance map style of "Vector Tiles Reader" plugin	INTERMEDIATE	Update the built-in base map QGIS styles (QML) for OpenMapTiles. (See also Issue #89).	cartography/graphic designing (aka 'coding')	User:Sfkeller
2	Make a new tutorial video for a popular QGIS plugin	INTERMEDIATE	QGIS has numerous plugins that provide additional functionalities, however, a number of these plugins do not have a website or tutorials available. For this task, use any open data (e.g. from your cities open data portal or the World Bank portal) to create a video tutorial to demonstrate how the plugin works.	marketing	Victoria Rautenbach
3	tbd.	tbd.	tbd.	tbd.	pending

Geospatial Libraries

FDO

official website: http://fdo.osgeo.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

GDAL/OGR

official website: http://gdal.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Geoinformatica

official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoinformatica

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

GEOS

official website: https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/

mentor: Regina Obe

tasks:

#	Name	Level	Description	Keywords	Mentor	Ticket
1	Design a logo	INTERMEDIATE	something simple, and squarish	art	pending
2	create a comic strip of the set operations on geometries: union, intersection, difference	BEGINNER	use your imagination	art	pending

GeoTools

official website: http://www.geotools.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

MetaCRS

official website: http://metacrs.osgeo.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Orfeo ToolBox (OTB)

official website: http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

OSSIM

official website: https://trac.osgeo.org/ossim/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

pgRouting

official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/PgRouting

mentor: Vicky Vergara

more info: https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/Google-Code-In

#	Name	Level	Description	Keywords	Mentor	Ticket
1	create a page for the pgRouting workshop using the Wikipedia example	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Vicky Vergara
2	add the results and a brief explanation of the results to the page created on Task 1	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Vicky Vergara
3	create a page for the pgRouting workshop using the Hanoslav example	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Vicky Vergara
4	add the results and a brief explanation of the results to the page created on Task 3	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Vicky Vergara

PostGIS

official website: http://postgis.net/

mentor: Regina Obe

tasks:

#	Name	Level	Description	Keywords	Mentor	Ticket
1	Design a laptop sticker with a PostGIS elephant	BEGINNER	Use your imagination	art	Regina Obe
2	create a page of 5 commonly used PostGIS queries and what they solve	INTERMEDIATE	For this task look over our docs for ideas of some queries and pick 5 you think are most useful	documentation	Regina Obe
3	create a screen cast of how to install PostGIS (pick any OS you want)	INTERMEDIATE		documentation	Regina Obe
4	create a comic strip of the core postgis types: geometry, geography, raster, and topology talking to each other	BEGINNER	For this task imagine there are 4 friends geomie, geoggie, rasterfa, and topolo what kind of conversation would they have? Each has a different perspective on things, geomie sees the world as a flat simple plane you can fall off of if you walk too far, geoggie sees the world as round where you can walk in any direction forever, rasterfa sees the world as a flat colorful place and believes a picture is worth a 1000 words, and topolo believes in the interconnectivity of all shapes where one object starts another begins but shares the flat view with geomie	art	Regina Obe

Postal Address Geo-Coder

official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Postal_Address_Geo-Coder

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Proj4php

official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Proj4php

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Metadata Catalogs

GeoNetwork

official website: http://geonetwork-opensource.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

pycsw

official website: http://pycsw.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Web Mapping

deegree

official website: http://www.deegree.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

geomajas

official website: http://www.geomajas.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

GeoMOOSE

official website: http://www.geomoose.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

GeoServer

official website: http://geoserver.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

GeoWebCache

official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoWebCache

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

istSOS

official website: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/IstSOS

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Mapbender

official website: http://mapbender.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

MapFish

official website: http://www.mapfish.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

MapGuide Open Source

official website: http://mapguide.osgeo.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

MapProxy

official website: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapProxy

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

MapServer

official website: http://mapserver.org

mentor: Jeff McKenna

#	Name	Level	Description	Keywords	Mentor	Ticket
1	Design a laptop sticker	BEGINNER	For this task...	marketing	Jeff McKenna
2	Make a video promoting MapServer, the fastest mapping engine	BEGINNER	For this task...	marketing	Jeff McKenna
3	Install MS4W on a Windows machine, and take screenshot	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Jeff McKenna
4	Find and fix mistakes/urls on the mapserver.org	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Jeff McKenna
5	Give a presentation to classmates about MapServer	BEGINNER	For this task...	marketing	Jeff McKenna
6	Fix any bug in the issue tracker	ADVANCED	For this task...	coding,C	Jeff McKenna

OpenLayers

official website: http://openlayers.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

PyWPS

official website: http://www.pywps.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Team Engine

official website: http://teamengine.sourceforge.net/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

ZOO-Project

official website: http://www.zoo-project.org/

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

Outreach

FOSS4G

official website: http://foss4g.org

mentor: Jeff McKenna

#	Name	Level	Description	Keywords	Mentor	Ticket
1	Make a video about the FOSS4G conference	BEGINNER	For this task...	documentation	Jeff McKenna
2	Present the history of the FOSS4G conference to classmates	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	marketing	Jeff McKenna
3	Create a replacement page for http://foss4g.org listing all conferences	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Jeff McKenna
4	Create a new social media page for FOSS4G (facebook?)	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Jeff McKenna

GeoForAll

official website: http://www.osgeo.org/education

mentor: N/A

tasks: N/A

OSGeo-Live

official website: http://live.osgeo.org/

mentor: Vicky Vergara

more info: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Google_Code_In

#	Name	Level	Description	Keywords	Mentor	Ticket
1	Download and install OSGeoLive	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Vicky Vergara
2	Make a video for downloading and installing OSGeo-Live	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	marketing	Vicky Vergara
3	QGIS quick start video [PART 1]	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Vicky Vergara
4	QGIS quick start video [PART 2]	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Vicky Vergara

OSGeo Foundation

official website: http://osgeo.org

mentor: Jeff McKenna

#	Name	Level	Description	Keywords	Mentor	Ticket
1	Make a short video about the OSGeo foundation	BEGINNER	For this task...	documentation	Jeff McKenna
2	Present the history of the OSGeo foundation to classmates	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	marketing	Jeff McKenna
3	Checkout part of git.osgeo.org locally, and create a screenshot	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Jeff McKenna
4	Create a page on the OSGeo wiki	BEGINNER	For this task...	documentation	Jeff McKenna
5	Style the page https://trac.osgeo.org	INTERMEDIATE	For this task...	documentation	Jeff McKenna