FOSS4G 2022 general tracks

OSGeo's Google Summer of Code Initiative has been an inspiring and motivating platform for new contributors to join the OSGeo projects, community projects, guest projects, and incubating projects. In 2022, OSGeo is participating for the 16th year in the Google Summer of Code, and it itself is a great achievement. With this talk, the OSGeo GSoC Administrators shall try to put forth the importance of GSoC with respect to the students and participating projects. The admins would focus on the development of projects with GSoC and encourage projects to be a part of the upcoming GSoC.

Over the years, OSGeo's Google Summer of Code initiative has transformed into an initiative full of contributions towards geospatial software development. In the last 16 years, many OSGeo projects comprising incubating projects, community projects, and guest projects have progressed attributed to the contributions of student developers. Some of these contributors continue to participate as contributors for the projects and went on to take mentoring and organizing responsibilities. This is a true sense of FOSS4G in terms of the individual and collective growth of the developers and the OSGeo community. In this talk, the OSGeo GSoC Admins team would try to appreciate the efforts of all the mentors and students involved till now and present the state of the GSoC 2022. The Admins would also present possibilities for new projects to be part of the GSoC with OSGeo as an umbrella organization.

ZOO-Project is a WPS (Web Processing Service) platform which is implemented as an Open
Source project and following the OGC standards, it was released under an MIT/X-11 style license and
is currently in incubation at OSGeo. It provides a WPS compliant developer-friendly framework to
easily create and chain WPS Web services. This presentation gives a brief overview of the platform
and summarizes new capabilities and enhancement available in the new version. A brief
summary of the Open Source project history with its direct link with FOSS4G will be presented. The new release comes up with a brand new ZOO-Kernel Fast Process Manager and, with the approved standard OGC API - Processes part 1: core. The new functionalities and concepts available in the latest release will be presented and described, also highlight their interests for applications developers and users. Apart from that, various use of OSGeo software, such as GDAL, GEOS, PostGIS, pgRouting, GRASS, OTB, SAGA-GIS, as WPS services through the ZOO-Project will be presented. Then, the ongoing developments and future innovations will be explored.

MapMint is a comprehensive task manager for publishing web mapping applications. It is a robust
open source geospatial platform allowing the user to organize, edit, process and publish spatial data
to the Internet. MapMint includes a complete administration tool for MapServer and simple user
interfaces to create mapfiles visually.
MapMint is based on the extensive use of OGC standards and automates WMS, WFS, WMT-S, and
WPS. Most of the MapMint core functions are run through WPS requests which are calling general or
geospatial web services: vector and raster operations, mapfiles creation, spatial analysis and queries
and much more. MapMint server-side is built on top of ZOO-Project, MapServer and GDAL and its
numerous WPS services are written in C, Python and JavaScript. MapMint client-side is based on
OpenLayers and Jquery and provides user-friendly tools to create, publish and view maps.
MapMint architecture and main features will be introduced in this presentation, and its modules
(dashboard, distiller, manager, and publisher) will be described with an emphasis on the OGC standards and OSGeo software they are using. Some short but relevant case studies and examples will finally
illustrate some of the key MapMint functionalities.

Over the years, OSGeo's Google Summer of Code initiative has transformed into an initiative full of contributions towards geospatial software development. In the last 16 years, many OSGeo projects comprising incubating projects, community projects, and guest projects have progressed attributed to the contributions of student developers. Some of these students continued to participate as contributors for the projects and went on to take mentoring and organizing responsibilities. This is a true sense of FOSS4G in terms of individual and collective growth of the student developers and the OSGeo community. In this talk, the OSGeo GSoC Admins team would try to appreciate the efforts of all the mentors and students involved till now and present the state of the GSoC 2022. The Admins would also present possibilities for new projects to be part of the GSoC with OSGeo as an umbrella organization.