🎈 Public Lab: Revisions for 'SoC ideas'

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220	siaw23	April 29, 2019 21:55 \| over 5 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford souravirus Aman Jain [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford Aman Jain Gaurav Sachdeva [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) (still needs work to function in node environment) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions see Colorimetric testing project here: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/979 expanded testing (especially of UI and CLI), improved code organization, better maintainability via https://codeclimate.com/github/publiclab/image-sequencer List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati h [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Souravirus [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
219	gauravano	April 29, 2019 20:38 \| over 5 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford souravirus Aman Jain [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford Aman Jain Gaurav Sachdeva [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) (still needs work to function in node environment) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions see Colorimetric testing project here: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/979 expanded testing (especially of UI and CLI), improved code organization, better maintainability via https://codeclimate.com/github/publiclab/image-sequencer List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati h [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Souravirus [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
218	warren	April 03, 2019 00:08 \| over 5 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford souravirus Aman Jain [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford Aman Jain [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) (still needs work to function in node environment) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions see Colorimetric testing project here: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/979 expanded testing (especially of UI and CLI), improved code organization, better maintainability via https://codeclimate.com/github/publiclab/image-sequencer List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati h [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Souravirus [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
217	jainaman224	April 02, 2019 03:59 \| over 5 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford souravirus Aman Jain [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford Aman Jain [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) (still needs work to function in node environment) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions expanded testing (especially of UI and CLI), improved code organization, better maintainability via https://codeclimate.com/github/publiclab/image-sequencer List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati h [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Souravirus [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
216	jainaman224	April 02, 2019 03:58 \| over 5 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford souravirus Aman Jain [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) (still needs work to function in node environment) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions expanded testing (especially of UI and CLI), improved code organization, better maintainability via https://codeclimate.com/github/publiclab/image-sequencer List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati h [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Souravirus [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
215	warren	April 01, 2019 18:33 \| over 5 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford souravirus [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) (still needs work to function in node environment) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions expanded testing (especially of UI and CLI), improved code organization, better maintainability via https://codeclimate.com/github/publiclab/image-sequencer List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati h [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Souravirus [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
214	souravirus	March 31, 2019 20:12 \| over 5 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford souravirus [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati h [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Souravirus [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
213	souravirus	March 31, 2019 20:09 \| over 5 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford souravirus [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati h [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
212	divyabaid16	March 25, 2019 13:19 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati h [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
211	IgorWilbert	March 16, 2019 20:51 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
210	IgorWilbert	March 16, 2019 20:50 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
209	warren	March 13, 2019 15:18 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 - potentially showing a bunch of sequences in a gallery with descriptions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
208	siaw23	March 08, 2019 18:57 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: Opaque meta modules (ability to make a new module out of a combination of other modules): https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/315 text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
207	siaw23	March 08, 2019 18:45 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Emmanuel Hayford [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: Opaque meta modules (ability to make a new module out of a combination of other modules): https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/315 text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
206	warren	March 08, 2019 17:05 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) All of this has been documented and further detailed in this planning issue: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers/issues/134 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: Opaque meta modules (ability to make a new module out of a combination of other modules): https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/315 text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
205	warren	March 08, 2019 16:09 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms from layer metadata standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal, also subtypes like spreadsheet, esri) and code to make adding new layers of a generic type eaiser improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) minimial 'dots' ui layer metadata -- description, source, docs for each, relevant bounding box and zoom levels, version, in a single file UI for highlighting new layers in current viewport as you drag/zoom submission form for new layers unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: Opaque meta modules (ability to make a new module out of a combination of other modules): https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/315 text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
204	gauravano	March 07, 2019 16:20 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal) improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) layer source versioning unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: Opaque meta modules (ability to make a new module out of a combination of other modules): https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/315 text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
203	harshithpabbati	March 07, 2019 11:47 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal) improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) layer source versioning unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Garuav Sachdeva (@gauravano) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: Opaque meta modules (ability to make a new module out of a combination of other modules): https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/315 text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) Harshith Pabbati [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
202	IgorWilbert	March 07, 2019 10:45 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal) improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) layer source versioning unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Garuav Sachdeva (@gauravano) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: Opaque meta modules (ability to make a new module out of a combination of other modules): https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/315 text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert
201	IgorWilbert	March 07, 2019 10:44 \| almost 6 years ago This is the ideas page for Public Lab's Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code program, programs for student fellows to work on free and open source projects. Important -- if you're new to Public Lab software contributing, see our Welcome page and our Contributing page Get in touch We love to hear from new contributors! Reach out on the developer mailing list - or in our chat room. We've embedded a small chatroom right here: 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 trying a `first-timers-only` issue, 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. To get started, see our welcome page: Welcome page: https://code.publiclab.org/#r=all How to post a proposal (for students) Please first leave a comment on the post below, 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 your computer or a test environment. Done with that? How about running tests? Tell us how far you've gotten, and ask us for help -- we're happy to help you get started! Read the call for proposals, ask questions, and post your ideas: Brainstorm for our ideas list here Questions [questions:soc] 2019 Ideas The following have been reviewed and formatted by our Summer of Code team. Mentors, please add your name by any project you'd be able to mentor with! Leaflet Environmental Layers Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/leaflet-environmental-layers Description: LEL - a collection of different environmental map layers in an easy to use Leaflet library. This new library is rapidly seeing many new layers, and we need some additional structure to help make the display/management of this amazing data smoother. This would include: additional layers for oilandgasthreatmap.com, OpenStreetMap tag-based data layers, higher resolution wind data, and more improved layer management system with bounding boxes + zooms standardization of layer types (tile, rss, csv, geojson, polygonal) improved workflow for incorporating and accepting new layers (submission template) layer source versioning unique-id based layer toggling in URL hash standardization of per-item popover UI (image, description, source, toggle, link) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet JS Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Garuav Sachdeva (@gauravano) [prompt:text:LEL mentor names here] MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter.org lets people upload their own aerial images, position (rubbersheet) them in a web interface over existing map data, and share via web or composite and export for print. It includes several sub-components, including a JS UI, but the core application is written in Rails. As part of our big upcoming upgrades to the MapKnitter platform, a range of Rails changes and improvements will make up the core of this project idea. Some of the changes will be aimed at infrastructure and sustainability, as we can't make big changes or improvements without, for example, better tests and a more up-to-date Rails stack. Others will be bug fixes and cleanup of the existing system. To list some: Rails 3 => 5.1 upgrade: expanded tests expand test fixtures deprecate very old MapKnitter 1 templates, controllers compile list of routes/URLs to build functional tests around move or refactor lots into models for unit testing get CI running map out JS API endpoints of MapKnitter, write functional tests for them consolidate and reorganize editor vs. viewer vs. maps listing templates, exporter templates attempt to remove all Way and Node code To see a full list of sub-projects, see https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/300 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Rails 5 mentor names here] MapKnitter Image Management Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: MapKnitter is based around the upload of images, the positioning of those images on a map, and the compositing of those images into map export formats. This project idea focuses on the systems for tracking changes on those images, collecting them into sets, storing image history, and other improvements which we hope will simplify and reconfigure the MapKnitter codebase. This may include: ability to order images in sidebar ability to select collection of images to export view of all images for given region in maps ability to choose time bounding box (some kind of layer manager maybe needed) refresh background images while dragging ability to upload new versions of an image ability to apply filters to images (with Image Sequencer) and upload new version ability to select a set of images from which to generate an export new templates and APIs to present images on any map, selected by bounding box image versioning, locking, and reverting possible collaboration with the Synchronous Editing project below on API and UI additions List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Image Management mentor names here] MapKnitter Synchronous Editing Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 Description: A long sought feature of MapKnitter is the ability to collaborate in real time on image upload and placement, as if it were Google Docs. This will involve changes from the MapKnitter codebase to the Leaflet.DistortableImage front-end image distortion UI. Parts of this project would likely involve: a low-latency plan for real-time multi user image placement (locking/unlocking/transactions) standardization and testing of image JS API potential low-latency API, possibly using sockets a simultaneous multi-user UI, highlighting images and animating their movement, like Google docs edit history/reversion, accept changes UI, possibly in a "history" menu? image "locking" or edit rejection UI for real-time use javascript tests (Jasmine, perhaps) for many of these features documentation of these features for downstream use by other libraries possible development of an interface layer between or extension of Leaflet.DistortableImage and the MapKnitter API possibly extract MapKnitter JS library from https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/tree/master/app/assets/javascripts/mapknitter as part of above List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails? Difficulty Level: easy/medium/hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter synchronous editing mentors names here] MapKnitter UI Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: MapKnitter's interactive image distortion UI is implemented in a Leaflet library called Leaflet.DistortableImage, which needs some major improvements. The changes might be built into the core library or could be developed as a set of extension libraries. Tasks include: multiple image selection image ordering simpler menu API to add new tools like `addMenu`, (even after initialization) nested menus or modal for more tools image menu overhaul general debugging debugging of menu placement, hide/show (list out bugs) full res download from menu, esp. a way to pass in full-res original image src for this exporting function 'place with geodata' tool, based on existing code ability to set order in Leaflet DistortableImage (use z-index) using function like `map.order_by(f())`; integrate with MK UI List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Leaflet Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter UI mentor names here] MapKnitter Cloud Exporter Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter Description: An serverless Exporting system for MapKnitter maps built around a Docker containerized Image Sequencer image processor, and/or a GDAL/ImageMagick alternative. We are exploring parallel tracks for cloud-based MapKnitter exporting, and one option is a JavaScript based process, while the other is a more traditional approach with a containerized GDAL/ImageMagick approach as currently used in MapKnitter. The base idea is to run the export process as a scalable web service, possibly "serverless" or REST, in Google Cloud and/or other cloud providers like Amazon AWS Lambda (primarily Google Cloud but compatible with others). Importantly, either approach would ideally present the same API so that we could swap or compare their performance. A much more in-depth description of this project can be found here: https://github.com/publiclab/mapknitter/issues/298 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: Ruby on Rails, serverless architecture, nodejs, possibly GDAL Difficulty level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:MapKnitter Cloud Exporter mentor names here] Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer Description: Image Sequencer is a general purpose, step-by-step image processing library in pure JavaScript, which we are building out to support a range of image-analysis tasks across Public Lab and beyond. We have a rang e of big projects we are eager to implement to dramatically improve performance, implement much-needed new module types, and more: Opaque meta modules (ability to make a new module out of a combination of other modules): https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/315 text overlay module (multiple approaches; https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/431) Performance: webgl, webassembly acceleration, worker threads: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/labels/performance Gallery of real-world and environmental use cases: Colorimetry tool, particle sizing + analysis https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/707 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Image Sequencer mentor names here] Community Toolbox Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/community-toolbox Description: Community Toolbox has become a core part of our success in growing our community and welcoming newcomers. Now we seek to refactor, standardize it and build tests to ensure its stabiliity and maintainability. This will include a data storage layer following the MVC schema, though in pure client-side JavaScript. It will include better defined views and modular utility functions. The result will be a library more people and projects can take up to use themselves, as well as more ways to understand a growing community -- who is involved, who is stuck, who is supporting others for any given time period. It could include a "how to" for different orgs, a menu of common views, and integration of the all-contributors spec for defining what kinds of contributions are recognized and valued: https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Nodejs Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Community Toolbox mentor names here] Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction) Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer, https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage Description: Multiple Public Lab projects, from microscopy to map stitching, require easy-to-use techniques for joining multiple images into a larger image. While high-end approaches for this often involve "bundle adjustment", we propose a different approach, which either a) runs blob tracking in video or sequential images to determine image offset, or b) runs low-res pattern matching between image pairs, and uses different UI approaches to indicate matches to the user (magnetic attraction, spiderwebs connecting matched points, highlight of matched image pairs). Other variations are possible but we envision a general purpose set of JavaScript utility libraries which accept two images, and output the matching pixel pairs, as well as one which takes sequential input images and attempts to place them on a growing virtual canvas based on matches. Other solutions are welcome but we hope to incorporate these into both Image Sequencer and Leaflet.DistortableImage, as well as potentially a web-based demo for use with a microscope live video feed. Read more on one approach: https://github.com/publiclab/image-sequencer/issues/300 Also see: https://github.com/publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage/issues/110 List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, NodeJS Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Igor Wilbert (@IgorWilbert) [prompt:text:Microscope Live Stitching mentor names here] Spectral Workbench Capture Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench, https://github.com/publiclab/spectral-workbench.js Description: DIY spectrometry has long been part of Public Lab's open source work, but our software is showing its age and is too spaghetti-like. We are slowly refactoring the spectral capture interface from Spectral Workbench into a stand-alone library which can produce spectral data for upload to SpectralWorkbench.org or download locally in CSV or JSON format. UI testing in Jasmine and code modularity using Browserify would both be great. This could ultimately become its own library called `spectral-workbench-capture` and even a full app such as `spectral-workbench-capture-react` or similar. Possible components: integration and tests consolidation and testing of API for search, matching, etc development of React app around basic ui modules (with compartmentalization of React code from core capture code) List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails (for integration) Difficulty Level: hard Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Spectral Workbench Capture mentor names here] Sensor data upload and display library Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: Many people across Public Lab and in DIY environmental work create and need to manage data easily without being a programmer. This will be a web-based JavaScript + HTML library which will allow drag-and-drop of CSV sensor data onto web platforms such as PublicLab.org, but will maintain modularity as a reusable library. It would feature: simple configuration menu for graph type use of a simple standard graphing library like chart.js or any reasonable alternative data column selection browse-able time slider see https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor or https://github.com/publiclab/inline-markdown-editor for modular examples one-click "open in ____" system for WTFCSV and google spreadsheets (list of export options) (additionally) display of per-user data list on publiclab.org, so you can see all the CSVs you've uploaded in a list; https://publiclab.org/data/_____, perhaps? List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, some Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren [prompt:text:Sensor data upload mentor names here] Public Lab Notifications system Part of: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 (though will be in standalone repository) Description: The Notifications API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification) allows for UI notifications on mobile and desktop initiated from JavaScript. This project would build out such a system, with the backing of a new API on `plots2` for triggering such notifications when new comments or posts are created. The project would be made up of client-side code to display notifications (and prevent multiples from being posted if multiple windows are open), and a back-end API to trigger them when new content is posted, potentially using Action Cable. Read more at: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/issues/2497 This project may need to be combined with other work to be large enough for a summer's work. List: plots-dev@googlegroups.com, https://publiclab.org/chat Prerequisites: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails Difficulty Level: medium Potential mentors: Jeff Warren Sidharth Bansal [prompt:text:Notifications system mentor names here]	Revert

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Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects)

Community Toolbox

Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction)

Spectral Workbench Capture

Sensor data upload and display library

Public Lab Notifications system

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Leaflet Environmental Layers

MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades

MapKnitter Image Management

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MapKnitter Cloud Exporter

Image Sequencer (multiple possible projects)

Community Toolbox

Microscope live stitching, auto-stitch in MapKnitter (magnetic attraction)

Spectral Workbench Capture

Sensor data upload and display library

Public Lab Notifications system

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Leaflet Environmental Layers

MapKnitter Rails 5 Upgrades

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