[Interop-dev] GSoC 2017 student application

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

Dear Xiang,
dear list,

> On 22 Feb 2017, at 10:27, Nemesis <(spam-protected)> wrote:
> 
> Reply from Xiang below
> 
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> Subject: 	Re: [Interop-dev] GSoC 2017 student application
> Date: 	Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:17:09 +0000
> From: 	GeekPlux <(spam-protected)>
> To: 	Nemesis <(spam-protected)>
> 
> 
> 
> thanks.
> 
> I recommend the http://sigmajs.org/ beacaus it dedicated to graph
> drawing based on canvas and WebGL.
> 
> The goal you mentiond I think it is easy to me :)  because I'm a web
> developer and have compeleted the network visualization project last year.
> 
> But I find out the last commit to NetJSON is one year ago, there are any
> people maintain and using it?
> 

Yes, there are people using it!
olsr.org for example outputs netjson format.

All the community wireless networks would benefit from good, intuitive, user friendly and comprehensive visualisations / UI of the network topology.

Best,
a.

> 
> 
> Nemesis <(spam-protected) <mailto:(spam-protected)>>于2017年2月22日周三
> 下午4:51写道：
> 
>    Hi Xiang,
> 
>    you are welcome to start contributing to netjsongraph.js.
> 
>    If NetJSON is accepted we will welcome applications from anyone and I
>    will surely welcome yours and review it carefully, especially if you are
>    an enthusiast of this kind of technologies.
> 
>    Let's get technical, I am not very satisfied with D3. I found it very
>    hard to work with. I am also not satisfied with SVG, because as the
>    number of elements on the graph grows, it becomes very slow, especially
>    on mobile.
> 
>    More people have suggested to me to switch to
>    http://visjs.org/network_examples.html, which is something I'm
>    considering.
>    This example seems to be using canvas:
>    http://visjs.org/examples/network/events/renderEvents.html
> 
>    netjsongraph.js has attracted quite some interest from around the world,
>    but I couldn't dedicate much time to it recently. It is also lacking
>    automated tests and a modern build process. Probably it would be better
>    to develop it using ES6 (which have some kind of built-in templating
>    feature) and transpile it with babel.js.
> 
>    Our goals should be the following:
> 
>    * make it faster with large numbers
>    * make it more mobile friendly
>    * use modern tools that are familiar to JS developers, so they can
>    contribute more easily
>    * add automated tests so we can be more confident of introducing changes
>    * get rid of complex features
>    * make it easy to extend, so users can experiment and build their own
>    derivatives
>    * make it easy to redraw/update the graph as new data comes in, at least
>    at the library level we should support this
> 
>    If we can accomplish these tasks, the library has the potential to
>    become useful to more communities and become a basic building block for
>    more advanced networking tools.
> 
>    Take a look also at this other application, which is using
>    netjsongraph.js for the visualization part:
>    https://github.com/netjson/django-netjsongraph
> 
>    Federico
> 
> 
>    On 02/22/2017 08:32 AM, Xiang Gao wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I find this great project, NetJSON, from results searched ‘GSoC’. And
>> the good intention about your project to apply the GSoC 2017
>    present in
>> the doc page. I wonder if I could involve in netjsongraph.js if the
>> application accept.
>> 
>> I’m a master student from China study the visualization. I’m familiar
>> with in d3.js, SVG and canvas and proficient in JS..
>> 
>> please reply any messages you want to talk to me…
>> 
>> best regards.
>> 
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