The Gephi project is part again of the Google Summer of Code in 2012!
This is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects, fund over a three month period (5000USD per student). Through this, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits.
Thanks to Google to support our small organization. The program really made a huge boost in development and community. I would like also to thank organizers and engineers for their great job on organizing and providing the infrastructure and tools.
2012
In 2012, 5 students were selected on these projects:
- Eduardo Espinoza – Legend Module in Preview
- Romain Yon – Cloud Gephi
- Taras Klaskovsky – Force Directed Edge Bundling algorithm
- Vikash Anand – Statistics Reports and HTML5 Charts
- Min WU – Interconnect Graph Streaming API and GraphStream
Detailed proposal descriptions can be found on the wiki.
2011
In 2011, 7 students were selected on these projects:
- Eytar Adar is mentoring Luiz Ribeiro Scripting Gephi
- Cezary Bartosiak is mentoring Daniel Bernardes Timeline player and movie creation
- Julian Bilcke is mentoring Urban Škudnik & Keheliya Gallaba Web-based network visualization with WebGL & Automated build & Maven
- Eduardo Ramos Ibañez is mentoring Ernesto Aneiros Indexed Attributes API using Lucene
- Antonio Patriarca is mentoring Vojtech Bardiovsky New Visualization Engine
- Christian Tominski is mentoring Yudi Xue Preview Refactoring
Detailed proposal descriptions can be found on the wiki.
Gephi Team during the Google Mentor Summit in Mountain View (from left to right: Antonio, Eduardo, Mathieu, Seb)
2010
In 2010, 5 students were selected on these projects:
- André Panisson – Graph Streaming API
- Antonio Patriarca – Shader Engine
- Cezary Bartosiak – Dynamic attributes and statistics
- Martin Škurla – Adding support for Neo4j in Gephi
- Yi Du – Direct Social Networks Import
Discover students specifications on the wiki and the code on Launchpad.
Mid-term blog articles:
- Graph Streaming API
- Dynamic attributes and metrics
- Neo4j support
- Social Network Import
- Shader Engine
2009
In 2009, 4 students were selected on these projects:
- Patrick McSweeney on Network Algorithms and Statistics module
This proposal calls for the implementation of 9 network algorithms and metrics which will enhance Gephi’s user experience by providing information about the network which is not usually apparent from mere visual introspection. The proposed network metrics are: HITS, PageRank, clustering coefficient, network diameter, mean shortest path, betweenness centrality, modularity, degree-distribution and closeness centrality. - PhD in Physics at Syracuse University, US
Gephi is able to export its network as SVG or PDF format. Using vectorial drawings for graph have many benefits like infinite zooming or clear shapes. The aim of this proposal is to develop a preview module in Gephi for seeing how the output will exactly looks like with the given parameters.
Spatialization plays an important role in rendering networks, specially when the size of the networks are huge and the complexity of current spatialization techniques starts to dominate. This proposal is about developing and implementing a highly scalable distributed spatialization algorithm, so that Gephi can ideally spatialize and render massive networks (~1M nodes).
I propose to add a new graphical component to Gephi, that will use the current slice-based storage of Gephi to provide an intuitive temporal graph navigation. This implementation will be designed with performance and ease of use in mind.
Gephi Team during Helder's visit in Paris (from left to right: Julian, Mathieu, Seb, Helder)
Look at the mid-term, and final results.
