# Project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2018

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/project-ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2018/77607
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 9, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/project-ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2018/77607 "2018-01-09T20:45:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 6

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![lognaturel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lognaturel/32/119556_2.png) [@lognaturel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lognaturel)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/project-ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2018/77607/6 "2018-01-16T01:04:15Z")

</div>

I’m part of the community for [Open Data Kit](https://forum.opendatakit.org), a set of open source tools for mobile data collection primarily used in the developing world (@downey hangs out there, too!). Our users are all over the world and one thing the community has been requesting is a map of users to make it easier to find local collaborators.

We’ve been talking about possible GSoC ideas for our organization and building a Discourse plugin for mapping users has come up. Would anyone here be interested in co-mentoring with someone from our end?

I see there’s some interest in this kind of functionality from the [Visual map of users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/visual-map-of-users/44020) feature thread and the discussion around @angus’ [Locations Plugin 🌍](https://meta.discourse.org/t/locations-plugin/69742).

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/project-ideas-for-google-summer-of-code-2018/77607)._