[2012] Present yourself!

[lbertelo]

Hi,

I'm Luc Berteloot and I'm studying computer science at University of Technology of
Compiègne in France. I like to use Open Source software in everyday life and more
specifically when I work on IT projects.

During this semester, I have been learning with interest the basics of network science
at my university. I have never heard about network science before. In this context,
I learnt to use Gephi and I like it. Currently, I mainly use Gephi to represent the web
network on specific topics.

I am interested by many technologies and scientific topics. Also, I have worked a lot
with Java since I started to study computer science. I wish that I could work on Gephi
this summer.

Best regards,
Luc

[yonromai]

Hi all

My name is Romain Yon, I’m a French student in computer science (major in data mining) at Compiègne University of technology. Also, I will enter next semester the Georgia Tech Master of Science program (major in Machine Learning).

During my previous semester, I did a six-month internship as a developer (I mainly worked on cloud services). Now that I know how working on big projects can be exciting and challenging, I miss such feelings. Thus, I’d like to get involved in an open source project so that I can keep on getting excited and learning while making the community benefit from my work.

I’m found of data analysis, and I often do some data grabbing/analysis during my free time. Along the way, Gephi has been by far the most insightful software I used for (exploratory) data analysis. As Gephi fits perfectly my fields of interest, I would be more than happy to work for this particular open source project. GSoC would be a great opportunity for me to enter the community and to get introduced in-depth to Gephi code. I hope this will permit me to become a permanent Gephi developer right after the GSoC.

Hope to be part of the community soon,
Thanks,
Romain

[admin]

Hi everyone,

Thank you for applying to Gephi!

Please send me this questionnaire in plain text to gsoc@gephi.org asap if you didn't. I will forward it to the mentors of the projects you want to apply for. I remind you that you have to submit your application on https://www.google-melange.com/ by April 6, otherwise we won't be able to take you!

Please also start soon to discuss about your projects on the forum, and contact the Gephi developers on the mailing-list to help you compile and fix one issue in Gephi (see the list of tasks). To help you choosing your issue, I listed below some easy bugs to fix:

Preview
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/572
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/560
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/555

Visualization interaction
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/549
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/544

File I/O
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/559
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/300
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/147

Data Laboratory
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/543

Statistics
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/509
https://github.com/gephi/gephi/issues/475

Good luck to all the candidates!
Sébastien

[edubecks]

Hi,

My name is Eduardo Espinoza and I'm currently a Computer Science master's student at University of Sao Paulo (USP) - Brazil. I work at the laboratory of Information Visualization and Computer Graphics (VICG). I found out about Gephi in Data Visualization classes. Gephi it's a great tool and it helped us while exploring and making researches about some datasets.

All of the tools we developed at the research group are coded using Java and Swing, but I also have experience with C++ and Python. Actually, I'm already contributing to a FLOSS project, the Projection Explorer (PEx) tool (http://infoserver.lcad.icmc.usp.br/infovis2/PEx). I work at the PEx-Sensors branch (http://www.icmc.usp.br/~paulovic/pexsensors/). Graph problems, algorithm design and information visualization have become my favorite topics, the first two come from the experience I had in programming contests, and the last one from studying and developing visualization techniques.

I read the proposals listed and all of them seem interesting, but I'm more interested on the Force Directed Edge Bundling because it's more involved with information visualization, and I could ask for advise to the university's professors about some improvements when dealing with graph visualizations, something that could benefit both Gephi and the VICG Lab. I also find the Legend module quite interesting, because without the correct legends, data could be misunderstood.

It's the first time I'm applying for the GSoC. The application field of Gephi is highly related to my research field, so it would represent a great contribution to both my studies and the open source community, and what is more important: it would be the first time I help making software widely used all over the world!.

Looking forward to hearing from you,
Eduardo Espinoza
edubecks007@gmail.com

[sridif]

Hi all,

I liked Gephi when I used it for a class project on visualizing trends in twitter. That project ended up looking like one of those cool ted videos.

I am a master student in machine learning at KTH. I will be applying for integrating graph streaming library into Gephi toolkit.

Cheers!
Sriram

[darkglobit]

Hi !

My name is Quentin Lobbé. I'm a computer science student from the University of Technologie of Compiègne ( France ) where I followed course of data exploratory analysis. Now I'm in 4th semester and i'm working on data mining and graphical interface projects.

I’m really interested in working with abstract data ( geographical network, web interaction ), managing it and giving them new signification using statistical, graphical and cognitive tools ( Bertin and Tufte’s work ).

I first used Gephi to conduct a study of the visibility of the city of Compiègne through the web http://dmnpignaud.perso.sfr.fr/blogIC05.php . I used Gephi as a user. And then during my Intership ( at the Complex Systems Institute in Paris ), I used Gephi API and Tools to develop an interface. This interface goal was to explore and analyse, throught time and space, mobility networks ( using mobile phone data )https://github.com/lobbeque/TouristsFlowInParis .

Now i want to bring my contribution to the gephi project with this google summer of code. I think the legend project is interesting for me because, during my intership, I began making a plugin to add map in the preview module. So there are a lot of good ideas that i could be able to bring in this project.

A least, i’m not just a geek wich spend all his time behind his computer, i’m also filmmaker ( let's have a look http://youtu.be/N9naRbQcK2g ), graphist, photograph and I do like Bernard Stiegler philosophy !!!

[sreeprasad]

Hello all,

My name is Sreeprasad. I am graduate student in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology.

I heard about Gelphi when I was developing a recommendation engine using a No-SQL graph database called Neo4j.
Last time in Google Summer of code, there was a project was to combine Neo4j and Gelphi. I wish to extend this idea further so that both Neo4j and Gelphi and can read from a Flexible Table such from excel or Microsoft Excel. Apache POI has lot of API for reading data from Microsoft Excel and I can leverage that along with Neo4j to develop a plugin which lets to seed data to both Neo4j and Gelphi.

It would be extremely awesome if the plugin is able to load Neo4j and Gelhpi at the together provided data in form of nodes and related edges are presented in the correct format. Before loading, correctness of data needs to be checked and if not option to abort or continue with remaining correct data should be presented to user.

Excited to work on this.

[gongchang]

Hi,

My name is Zhaojie Zhang. I am a Ph.D student in Biology and MS student in Computer Science in University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

I am interested in networks. I used softwares like Gephi and Cytoscape in analyzing biological networks for my research and course projects. I am familiar with Python/R/matlab/shell/Java and bioinformatics data analysis. I saw the requirement specified on the website and think I might be a good fit for "writing the statistical unit testing".

By taking part in this GSoC project, I can on the one hand be more familiar with the different network metrics and on the other hand contribute to a project that is both interesting and useful to me.

Best,

Zhaojie Zhang
gongchangzhaojie@gmail.com

[uditgpt5]

Hello all,
My name is Udit Gupta. I am an undergraduate student currently pursuing B.E.(Hons.) Computer Science at Bits Pilani University, India. Currently I am in my fourth year.

I am deeply interested in graph algorithms and visualization. This will be my first experience with Gephi. When I read about Gephi few days back for GSOC 2012, I found one of the features of Gephi really exciting. That feature was it uses 3D engine to display large networks in real time.

I have experience working in C/JAVA/MATLAB. After looking at the requirements on 'ideas page', I feel I am fit for 'Flexible Table Importer'.

This GSOC project will enable me to get real time experience in fields of graph visualization and data importer which in turn would help me in solving the real world applications in graphs in more efficient and optimized manner.

Hoping to be a part of this exciting journey.

Thanks and regards,
Udit Gupta

[mbastian]

Only one day before applications deadline. Submit your application to Google Melange before tomorrow!

Timeline here:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/even ... e/gsoc2012