Offer to Help with Development of Thuban

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hi Barry,

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 03:03:42PM -0400, Barry Windridge wrote:
>    My name is Barry Windridge and I am interested in becoming involved in
>    the development to Thuban (but I won't be in a position to start
>    contributing until the beginning of August).

great! We are always looking for contributors!

>    I am not an expert in Thuban or Python, but I have  written about 6
>    exentsions for Thuban.  I have a broad progarmming background and I
>    have a reasonable backgound in using ESRI GIS software.

You should be fine helping us as Python is easy to manage for programmers
and you seem to have done some work already.

>    I am particularly interested in developing a suite of spatial
>    selection tools for Thuban. For example:
> 
>    1) select shapes in a layer based upon a user drawn shape (line,
>    circle, polygon)

Should be doable if the user drawn shape is not saved permanently
and accuracy is not the major importance.

>    2) select shapes in one layer based upon selected shapes in another
>    layer (including buffered shapes)

This looks like a major GIS operation, so it will be a bit more difficult.

>    How do I go about becoming involved?

Add an account on wald.
Grab a pet feature, an issue or a bug and start hacking.
Report your results here or on wald. Coordinate on the list or wald.

Also try to get a SVN version to run.

If this works out with smaller things, we grant you write access to SVN.

If your contributions are getting really we might in the future
think about a copyright assignment if we want to include them into
main Thuban, but this should not keep you from hacking in any case.

Best,
	Bernhard

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