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    21= GSoC 2010 =
    32We have been lucky enough to have 6 students accepted:
     
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    16 == Suggestions for Student Applications ==
    17  * When thinking about the goals within you project, consider (These do NOT need to be included in your application, but you should acknowledge them in your goals and timeline):
    18   * Complete Specification Requirements (how can you code it, if you don't know what "it" is)
    19   * User Stories, wire-frames, flow-charts
    20   * Testing (If you haven't tested it - it doesn't work)
    21   * Documentation - for maintenance, for developers (if it is framework functionality which will be re-used) and for users (if the code isn't documented - it's not finsihed)
    22  * In terms of functionality goals, try to express them in terms of what the user will be able to do.
    23  * Don't be afraid to ask questions to the mentors for the projects.
    24 
    25 == Project Ideas ==
    26 
    27 Here is a place to start collecting thoughts and ideas for potential projects which could be submitted as part of Google Summer (or Winter - depending on you hemispherial orientation) of Code (GSoC) 2010.
    28 [[BR]]
    29 Students are welcome to submit their own project ideas to, although it would be a good idea to share the idea with the community first (via the [http://groups.google.com/group/sahana-eden Mailing List] or IRC: #sahana-eden) to check the viability of it and help to develop it.[[BR]]
    30 Many of the ideas listed on http://wiki.sahanafoundation.org/doku.php/dev:sahana_gsoc10_ideas could also be implemented in Sahana Eden. [[BR]]
    31 Finally, just because there are students or mentors listed for a project already doesn't mean that you can't apply. All applications will be judged equally on their merit.
    32 
    33 == Synchronization ==
    34 === Description ===
    35 Sharing data between separate instances of Sahana. This might include such functionality as:
    36  * Automated syncing
    37  * Syncing via flash drive
    38  * Creating rule to avoid conflicts
    39  * Creating user friendly interface to resolve conflict
    40  * Allowing an instance to either access a local DB or server DB depending on the connection
    41  * Upgrading a local instance at the time of syncing (could this  also be done if syncing by flashdrive?)
    42  * Cleaning data and removing duplicate entries between versions.
    43 
    44 === Appeal ===
    45  * Would allow Sahana to be used in environments without reliable internet.
    46  
    47 === Blue Prints ===
    48 [wiki:BluePrintSynchronisation]
    49 
    50 === Interested Students ===
    51 Amer Tahir - amertahir (at) gmail (dot) com
    52 
    53 === Interested Mentors ===
    54   - Dominic König - dominic (at) nursix (dot) org
    55   - Michael Howden* - michael (dot) howden (at) gmail (dot) com
    56 
    57 == Survey Tool ==
    58 === Description ===
    59 A tool to allow non-technical users to generate custom surveys and:
    60  * Print the surveys and read the results through Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
    61  * Allow the survey to be completed via SMS, or on an iPhone, Android, iPad, Abacus
    62  * Generate pretty graphs & reports
    63  * Perform analysis on the survey data (How's your Statistics?)   
    64  * Link survey results to maps
    65  * Data visualization
    66  * integration with SMS for SMS Surveys
    67 
    68 http://groups.google.com/group/GlobalWASHIMTools shows an example of a generic survey tool design for the Global WASH (Water Sanitation and Health) cluster (UNICEF, IR, Oxfam).
    69 
    70 === Appeal ===
    71  * In the recovery period after disasters and crisis's, organizations need to collect information about affected people to plan activities better and to assess the impact of those activities. Surveys are also important prior to disasters to assess to vulnerability of populations and help them to better respond to hazards.
    72  * This could involve playing with a bunch of cool technologies. 
    73 === Blue Prints ===
    74  * [wiki:BluePrintOCR]
    75  * [wiki:BluePrintReporting]
    76  * [wiki:BluePrintSurveyTool]
    77 === Interested Students ===
    78 (there  could be more than one project here) [[BR]]
    79 Robert O'Connor -- [http://robbyoconnor.blogspot.com blog] - robby DOT oconnor AT gmail DOT com - IRC Nicks: robbyoconnor, r0bby[[BR]]
    80 === Interested Mentors ===
    81 Michael Howden* (Focused on the core functionality)[[BR]]
    82 Praneeth Bodduluri (Focused on the OCR)
    83 
    84 == GIS ==
    85 === Description ===
    86 If you're happy to spend the 5K you get from google on a UAV - the sky's the limit.
    87 [[BR]]
    88 Even if  not there's still heaps of opportunities:
    89  * Color coded maps according to Geo-data (threats, needs, etc)
    90  * Placing variable sized markers on the map in proportion to data (number of people in camp, number of families needing food)
    91  * Tracking people ( John Smith was registered at Camp A, then collected food at Camp B, then volunteers at Site C), or Items (The shipment of Tarpaulins moved from site C to site D, where it was split, and then half of them have been distributed from site E)
    92  * Having a playable timeline slider (like [http://haiti.ushahidi.com/main])
    93  * Integrating Walking Papers ([http://walking-papers.org/]) functionality into Sahana
    94 === Appeal ===
    95  * Maps are where it's at
    96 === Blue Prints ===
    97 [wiki:BluePrintGeographicInformationSystems]
    98 === Interested Students ===
    99 
    100 Douglas Soares de Andrade (dsa) - dsandrade at gmail.com
    101 
    102 Anil Kumar M - anil(dot)kumar(dot)848(at)gmail(dot)com  IRC - mak89k
    103 
    104 Zubair Assad - zubairassad89 [at] gmail [dot] com ; IRC: assad
    105 === Interested Mentors ===
    106 
    107 Fran Boon (flavour)
    108 == Importing Tool ==
    109 === Description ===
    110 A generic importing tool, which allowed data to be imported from various sources automatically. The data could be parsed and fitted into our data model, or it may just be added to a news feed aggregator. This project could include:
    111  * Importing from PDF, XLS, HTML, Ushahidi, new feeds, incoming SMS
    112  * A User friendly interface to match fields to parse the data
    113  * Importing from "flat" tables to linked tables
    114  * Methods of automatically (or with a user friendly interface) cleaning data
    115 === Appeal ===
    116  * The data is out there, we need it in here.
    117  * A large amount of Disaster Information Management is still done using Excel. To get people to start using Sahana, we need to give them the option of easily migrating all of that excel data.
    118 === Blue Prints ===
    119  * [wiki:SpreadsheetImporter]
    120  * [wiki:BluePrintImporter]
    121 === Interested Students ===
    122 Nitin Rastogi (IRC nick - codestasher)
    123 
    124 Shikhar Kohli - shikharkohli(at)gmail(dot)com IRC-shikhark
    125 === Interested Mentors ===
    126 Michael Howden*
    127 
    128 == Dashboard/Usability ==
    129 === Description ===
    130 Create a dashboards with a slick interface to make :
    131  * Integrate an electronic whiteboard feature with a Wii remote do display and manipulate information (eg. stock in warehouse, lists of requests, lists of people, vehicles)
    132 === Appeal ===
    133  * Whiteboards are a highly used tool in disasters for managing information
    134 === Blue Prints ===
    135 === Interested Students ===
    136 === Interested Mentors ===
    137 Michael Howden*
    138 
    139 == Volunteer Management System ==
    140 === Description ===
    141 Volunteer Management and Coordination is the most fundamental component during Disaster Management. It would include, among other essential functions in the current module 'vol', the following:
    142  * Deployer Interface for customization of requirement from volunteer
    143  * Volunteer data on Maps with the descriptive placemarks containing Volunteer Information e.g. Resources and the skills
    144  * Volunteers to be automatically matched to the most appropriate projects based on their proximity to the region and other factors.
    145 === Appeal ===
    146  * Live data of the location of volunteers would allow immediate dispatch in an organized manner
    147  * Deployer Interface to elucidate their requirements of volunteer for more customization and effective deployment.
    148 === Blueprints ===
    149 [wiki:BluePrintVolunteer]
    150 === Interested Students ===
    151 
    152 Zubair Assad - zubairassad89 [at] gmail [dot] com ; IRC: assad
    153 
    154 Anil Kumar M - anil [dot] kumar [dot] 848 [at] gmail [dot] com ; IRC: mak89k
    155 
    156 Shikhar Kohli - shikharkohli [at] gmail [dot] com ; IRC- shikhark
    157 === Interested Mentors ===
    158 
    159 
    160 *Not all 4 - but am flexible.
    161 
    162 == Hospital Management System Widget ==
    163 === Description ===
    164 Build a widget (similar to the Google Person Finder widget) for reporting hospital status information directly into the Hospital Management System (HMS).  This needs to be EDXL-HAVE and EDXL-DE compliant.  Best to dump the data into a table for validation before it is added to the main registry.
    165 === Appeal ===
    166 This will make Sahana more ready to deploy in future disasters and to become the main registry for capturing hospital availability and capacity data.
    167 === Interested Mentors ===
    168 Mark Prutsalis
    169 === Blueprints ===
    170 === Interested Student ===
    171 
    172 
    173 [[BR]]
    174 [[BR]]
    175 == HTML/JS front-end for S3XRC ==
    176 === Description ===
    177 Create an HTML and JS based frontend for S3XRC REST backend. Provide RAD way of writing reusable UI that can represent data coming from S3XRC (compound results). Provide alternatives to SQLFORM of web2py, which can suitably generate and handle forms based on compound resources.
    178 === Appeal ===
    179  * This will enable Sahana Eden to show results of complex SQL queries in the front-end.
    180  * A more responsive jQuery/ExtJS based UI that would change less, and actively load data through AJAX.
    181  * Will enable developers quickly prototype interfaces.
    182 === Interested Mentors ===
    183 [[BR]]
    184 
    185 === Blueprints ===
    186  * [wiki:S3XRC_v2][[BR]]
    187  * [wiki:S3XRC]
    188 === Interested Student ===
    189 Abhishek Mishra ( ideamonk at gmail.com ) [http://blog.ideamonk.in blog] [http://groups.google.com/group/sahanapy/browse_thread/thread/e88638760031ab96?hl=en discussion]
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