John Westwood

Introductions
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Name

John Westwood

Tell us about yourself

Hello

I am John Westwood, a computer programmer / software engineer located in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. My qualifications include a BEng in Electronic & Computer Engineering and an MSc in GIS. I work part-time for the University of Portsmouth on the Vision of Britain website: www.visionofbritain.org.uk .

My personal programming project, Fractalscope, is an open-source fractal explorer written in Qt C++ for Windows and Linux: Fractalscope download | SourceForge.net . It is designed to have an intuitive and easy-to-use interface.

I have programming skills in Qt C++, Java, JSTL, Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML. Experience in Qt Creator, Eclipse IDE, Git, Postgresql, PostGIS, GDAL, OpenLayers, QGIS, MapServer, etc.

What do you want to learn / contribute

I would like to offer my time and expertise to an OSGeo project but am unsure how to proceed. I am interested in improving my programming skills and gaining experience in modern workflows and tooling.

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Wow that covers quite a bit of territory. I’m on the PostGIS and pgRouting teams.

There are several forums on QGIS here, might want to check them out if you haven’t already - QGIS - OSGeo Discourse given you seem to have a lot of experience with Qt C++. QGIS might be a good place to start.

There is also a QGIS dev mailing list here - QGIS-Developer Info Page.

You should also check out our osgeo matrix - Matrix - OSGeo

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Thanks robe.

Yes, I was thinking about giving QGIS a look.

Just having a play now and am compiling it from source :slight_smile: