I am Kinshuk Sanand, a sophomore at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow (IIIT Lucknow), India. I am interested in geospatial systems, backend infrastructure, and open-source development. I have built GeoMatch, a high-performance geospatial matching engine, and actively exploring OSGeo projects.
Contributor to GDAL and PROJ. Currently exploring istSOS and preparing a GSoC proposal related to RBAC and user management.
merged PRs:
PROJ:
- #4692:Refactor time parsing with thread-safe localtime and leap year fix
GDAL:
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#14038:apply ellipse rotation in quadtree path
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#14036:remove redundant IsAboveTerrain calls to halve I/O
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#14055:Update broken Trac/SVN links to GitHub
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#14034:Fix copy-paste typo in SSE RMS overview resampling
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#14078:replaced defunct Google Maps API link
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#14080:fixed broken external links in software_using_gdal.rst
I want to deepen my understanding of geospatial infrastructure and contribute improvements to istSOS, particularly around user management, RBAC integration, and administration workflows.
I currently don’t have an OSGeo service account
I have made a draft proposal for istSOS ,wanted to know where do i share it to get feedback from the mentors of the istSOS community