{"id":193,"date":"2017-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/gsoc_2017\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T00:00:00","slug":"gsoc_2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/gsoc_2017\/","title":{"rendered":"CHICAS Researcher to Mentor Google Summer School Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Every year Google run their &#8220;Google Summer of Code&#8221; (GSoC) scheme, funding students to develop open source software. This year a <a href=\"https:\/\/summerofcode.withgoogle.com\/projects\/#5197021490184192\"> project proposed by Barry Rowlingson <\/a> has been accepted and the student, Kevin Stadler, will start working on it shortly. Kevin is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and is currently a contributor to open-source projects. The project is co-mentored by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.egu.eu\/divisions\/essi\/author\/wagemann\/\">Julia Wagemann<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> The aim of the project is to enable applications that might not have powerful geographic mapping functions to control QGIS, the leading open-source geographic information system. In this way, statistical packages such as R, and programming languages such as Python can leverage QGIS to produce high-quality cartography or use its interactive digitising and editing functions. <\/p>\n<p> The project lasts for four months and pays the student a stipend to work on the project. All work is done remotely, and supervision is by regular teleconferences and online discussions. <\/p>\n<p> Barry has mentored two other GSoC projects in the past, and has literally &#8220;got the T-shirt&#8221;, which is one of the benefits for GSoC mentors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Google run their &#8220;Google Summer of Code&#8221; (GSoC) scheme, funding students to develop open source software. This year a project proposed by Barry Rowlingson has been accepted and the student, Kevin Stadler, will start working on it shortly. Kevin is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and is currently a contributor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/chicas-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}