My Experience With OSGeo And GCI

    My Experience With OSGeo and GCI

On November 28,2017 I registered on Google Code In website which gives high school students an opportunity to get to know about Open Source by completing small sized tasks for the participating Organizations. This year about 25 organizations participated and OSGeo(Open Source Geospatial Foundation) was one of it.

 OSGeo is serving as an umbrella to other Geospatial organizations such as Grass GIS, QGIS, MapServer, gvSIG, pgRouting, Open Layers and many more.

I really enjoyed working with OSGeo as the community was really helpfull, Mentors was really working hard to help us Thank You Mentors and other students working with OSGeo, Like Ethan Zhao for Helping me!

I still remember that I mistakenly claimed an beginner task of an other organization on first day, so I was only able to do 1 beginner task for OSGeo. 

I completed 71 tasks in total and 70 for OSGeo.

   

Tasks Completed For OSGeo:

OSGeo: Total=1

  

Add yourself to Members Map

Mentors: Jeff McKenna, Yewondwossen Assefa

Grass GIS: Total=16

Test for r.info, i.vi, v.extract, v.univar, v.select, r.report, r.texture, v.vect.stats, r.recode,  r.in.ascii and r.to.vect Modules. 

Examples for d.text and r.support Modules.

Compiled Source Code

Video on How to create a location: Link To Video

Mentors: lucadelu, Veronica Andreo

OSGeoLive: Total=19

Completed both the  series of video tasks of using Marble and QGIS. Link: Playlist Of OSGeoLive Videos

Wrote Blog on OSGeoLive: Link To Blog

Mentors: Vicky Vergara, Maoguang Wang,
Margherita Di Leo

pgRouting: Total=15 

Completed a series of mascots tasks with Book(svg), Book(HTML), Car(SVG), Car(HTML), Lorry(SVG), Lorry(HTML), School Bus(SVG), School Bus(HTML), QGIS(SVG), QGIS(HTML), Cellular Phone(SVG), Cellular Phone(HTML), Magnifier(SVG), Magnifier(HTML). 

pgRouting: Main pgRouting first task [0] 

Mentors: Vicky Vergara, Vidhan Jain, Maoguang Wang, Daniel Kastl, Rohith Reddy Sankepally

OpenLayers: Total= 3

Created a basic web application with OpenLayers

Wrote a basic tutorial for creating a web map that can be used to train school learners

OpenLayers and GeoServer: (Part 1) Write a basic tutorial for creating a web map application that displays a WMS layer

Mentors: Victoria Rautenbach

GeoForAll: Total=2

Report on Find and describe 5 open educational geospatial resources and What is open education and how can I contribute?

Mentors: Victoria Rautenbach

MapServer: Total= 4

Founded and fixed mistakes/urls on mapserver.org,

Created a video promoting MapServer, Designed a laptop sticker, and Fixed an bug in the issue tracker

Mentors: Jeff McKenna, Yewondwossen Assefa

QGIS: Total= 2

Wrote an basic tutorial for creating a map that can be used to train school learners and Created a thematic map with QGIS.

Mentors: Victoria Rautenbach

gvSIG: Total=8

Downloaded, uncompressed and launched gvSIG BATOVí., Installed Portable View Editor add-on on gvSIG Batoví, Installed Portable View Viewer add-on on gvSIG Batoví, Created a Map and shared it, Loaded two vector layers and Shaped a View and shared it,

Created Two Videos of:

Installing Portable View Viewer add-on on gvSIG Batoví: Link To Video

installing Portable View Editor add-on on gvSIG Batoví: Link to Video

Mentors: Sergio Acosta y Lara, Nadia Chaer, Carlos I. Colomban, Antonio Zito Camach

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Thats All the tasks i did,  try adding these, it will make 70:)  I really enjoyed doing all of these tasks.

I have learned many things with this contest and with OSGeo, i got to know about what "Community" is, i learned GIT, i created my own website, i learned python, i got to learn about various Geospatial softwares.I also tried to help other students as well, hope i teach them correctly.

Once Again! Thanks to all the mentors and Ethan Zhao, for helping me all the time and Google Code In for giving us this opportunity.

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