[Interop-dev] GSoC 2017 student application
GeekPlux
(spam-protected)
Fri Mar 10 19:58:30 CET 2017
I’m so sorry for the late reply, because I’m fighing for a deadline for a
paper job.
NetJSON project proposal About me
- Name: Xiang Gao (高翔)
- Email: (spam-protected)
- Blog: http://geekplux.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/geekplux
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/geekplux
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geekplux/
- Country: China
Please click on the links above to find more information about me.
*Who are you? What’s the focus of your studies? What makes you the best
person to work on this project?*
- I’m a graduate student studying in Hangzhou Normal university, and
graduated from Qiongzhou university in China.
- I’m a front-end developer with more than one-year working experience.
But now I am interested in the Data Visualization and already made several
visualization projects of network structure. Some demos using D3 are listed
on my GitHub, I can send you more code fragments if you need.
- I use JS and a few Python ordinarily. I’ve used the main trend
frameworks like Vue, React and Angular1.x, and recently I usually use D3 to
do a visualization work.
Experiences in Free Open Source Software
*What free and/or open source projects have you participated in? Please
describe your contributions, provide us links to your features and commits.*
If you go to https://opensourcecontributo.rs/user/geekplux, you can see my
most contributions on GitHub which focused on Front-End and used
JavaScript. Some contribution like
https://github.com/CodeFalling/hexo-renderer-org/commits?author=geekplux is
not find in this page.
Project Proposal
Thanks for your previous letters, I’ve understood your goal.
- Project Title: NetJSON-Vis
- Possible Mentor: Nemesis
Description
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
I recommend to use the http://sigmajs.org/ . If the performance is
bottleneck, We can use canvas or WebGL directly to draw a graph.
Tasks and Schedule
- initial work: (create a new repo?) build a project with yarn, Webpack
and Babel. *1~2 days*
- draw a demo graph using canvas or WebGL. *1 week*
- make a example page to show visualization results. *1~2days*
- add test(using Ava and XO) and CI. *1~2days*
- discuss and design visualization view *1 week*
- visualization implemention. *6 weeks*
- beautify the visualization. *1 weeks*
- publish to npm. *1 day*
- improve visualization and test. *2 weeks*
- design interface for plugin *1 week*
My estimate of time is not accurate and it might be a bit short.
I think our implemention is data-driven, so we should design a data store
for graph generation. When the data store update, the graph will update,
too.
My Availability
- *school-related activities*
Yes. Maybe I should write some code to assist the Phd students to complete
their paper. But I don’t have a full- or part-time job or internship
planned for this summer. Because to go to find a visualization job is
difficult :)
I might have at least 20 hours every week.
After GSoC
*Do you have plans to continue with your project within the freifunk
community after GSoC?*
It sounds great, I’m love to post a PR, so It’s exciting for me to be a
long-time maintainer for NetJSON.
Thanks again.
Xiang
Nemesis <(spam-protected)>于2017年3月3日周五 下午4:51写道：
> Yes you should. According to the GSoC rules, you can start sending your
> proposal from 20th of March onwards, consult the official GSoC timeline
> for more precise information:
> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
>
> At this stage, I highly suggest you to try the library, play with it,
> consult the issue list:
> https://github.com/netjson/netjsongraph.js/issues - is there any issue
> easy enough that you would be able to solve right now?
>
> We want to be sure the students we accept in our organizations are
> autonomous, you work on a problem, if you get stuck you ask a few
> questions, but you go ahead on your own and come up with a good enough
> solution. If you can show to be able to propose good solutions for the
> problems we are working on you have a higher chance of being accepted.
>
> Federico
>
>
> On 03/02/2017 05:33 PM, Xiang Gao wrote:
> > Great thanks. I have experience for network visualization and ready to
> > get started. Should I write a proposal to Freifunk?
> >
> >
> >> On Mar 1, 2017, at 16:49, Nemesis <(spam-protected)
> >> <mailto:(spam-protected)>> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm contributor OpenWISP, NetJSON and Ninux and I have been mentor and
> >> organization admin for Freifunk a few times in the previous years
> >> (almost every year since 2011), I know personally many people in
> >> Freifunk and we are good friends.
> >>
> >> All these projects have a slightly different scope but have one common
> >> denominator: they want to make it easier to build bottom-up computer
> >> networks (wireless, mesh, wired, radio, fiber, whatever technology).
> >>
> >> The NetJSON implementation ideas present in
> >> http://openwisp.org/gsoc/ideas-2017.html are focused on the
> >> configuration part (NetJSON DeviceConfiguration), which is the current
> >> focus of OpenWISP 2.
> >>
> >> NetJSON is an open format and can be implemented by any software.
> >> My aim in trying to get NetJSON accepted as a mentoring organization was
> >> to help it gain popularity, but I knew the chances were not very high so
> >> I made sure to write the same project ideas in multiple places, because
> >> I think those project ideas are valid and useful indipendently on which
> >> umbrella organization works on them, be it Freifunk, Ninux or NetJSON.
> >> Since in the ninux.org <http://ninux.org> community network we are
> >> using the NetJSON
> >> NetworkGraph objects to collect and visualize topology information, it
> >> makes sense to keep working on this front with Freifunk, which is an
> >> Umbrella organization for community networks.
> >>
> >> But this are just my ideas and do not represent the view of Freifunk as
> >> I haven't had the time to discuss thoroughly with them. The number of
> >> available projects will depend on the number of applications Freifunk
> >> gets.
> >>
> >> Therefore, if you like the project you were interested in, get involved
> >> as soon as you can, show that you care, that you are able to improve it
> >> so it can be useful to all the communities collaborating with Freifunk.
> >> We are actively looking for new, valid and passionate contributors, if
> >> you think you are one, show us!
> >>
> >> Federico
> >>
> >>
> >> On 02/28/2017 07:28 PM, Xiang Gao wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Excuse my-ties, I wonder what relationship between OpenWisp and
> >>> Freifunk? I saw the NetJSON project in
> >>> http://openwisp.org/gsoc/ideas-2017.html, too.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards
> >>> Xiang
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Feb 28, 2017, at 20:37, Nemesis <(spam-protected)
> >>>> <mailto:(spam-protected)>
> >>>> <mailto:(spam-protected)>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> NetJSON has not been accepted for the GSOC 2017, but you can still
> apply
> >>>> with Freifunk for the same ideas, see
> >>>>
> >>>>
> https://wiki.freifunk.net/Ideas#Netjsongraph.js:_canvas_and_geographic_data
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards
> >>>> Federico
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 02/22/2017 07:16 PM, Nemesis wrote:
> >>>>> On 02/22/2017 03:34 PM, GeekPlux wrote:
> >>>>>> Great thanks for all.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sounds very cool and useful. I don't know about wireless dev, but
> >>>>>> know a
> >>>>>> generic data format is important. Do I need to understand OpenWISP2?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You don't need to understand OpenWISP2 in order to work on
> >>>>> netjsongraph.js.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You need to know NetJSON, be sure to read the information provided on
> >>>>> the website and the RFC.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Federico
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
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