MapnikCodeSprint_MCS01_Results.md

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+<!-- Last-Modified: 2010/09/30 12:04:24 -->
+<!-- Author: springmeyer -->
+## Blogs
+
+[Bonnie Bogle](http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/sep/24/mapnik-code-sprint-london-weekend)
+
+[Tom MacWright](http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/sep/27/report-mapnik-code-sprint)
+
+[OpenGeoData](http://opengeodata.org/mapnik-code-sprint-committers-and-cartographe)
+
+[Mike Migurski](http://mike.teczno.com/notes/map-sprint.html)
+
+Dane Springmeyer
+
+* [Kickoff](http://mapnik.org/news/2010/sep/24/mcs01_day1/)
+* [Faster Mapnik](http://mapnik.org/news/2010/sep/29/mcs01_roundup1/)
+* [Community](http://mapnik.org/news/2010/sep/29/mcs01_roundup2/)
+
+## Photos
+
+[Hard at work on Mapnik] (http://www.flickr.com/photos/developmentseed/5029925686/in/photostream/)
+
+[Dane and Artem meet in person](http://yfrog.com/50o6xj)
+
+[Intensely following TileMill demonstration](http://yfrog.com/n4go6sj)
+
+[Toasting a successful sprint](http://yfrog.com/jvegpqj)
+
+
+## Fixes and Improvements
+
+This is a quick list of things we started work on or achieved during the sprint:
+
+(please add anything I missed - dane)
+
+* Discussed next stable release (.7x series and Mapnik2 work, what to backport)
+* Forward compatibility of .7.x series a priority  (springmeyer)
+* Lots of work on new prototype for documentation (dodobas) [#288](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/288)
+* Moved Cascadenik to github and refactored lots of code, merging in XML-bad branch (migurski, rcoup, ninow) (http://github.com/mapnik/Cascadenik)
+* Came up with lots of new ideas and pushed they into tickets against [Sprint Milestone](http://http://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/milestone/MCS1%20Tickets) 
+* Many sprinters installed Mapnik2 - we updated docs with lessons learned (springmeyer)
+* Extensive review and prioritization of tickets relating to cartographic features (ldp)
+* Work towards native boost::spirit WKT parser (artem)
+* Number of improvements to python api documentation (tmcw)
+* Add functions to set the alpha of overall rendering map image (springmeyer)
+* Started work on better warning output during XML parsing for misspelled property names (springmeyer) [#110](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/110)
+* Added function to convert grayscale channel to alpha channel for "World Glass" effect (springmeyer)
+* Added support for faster multi-threaded reprojection through use of proj ctx ([#605](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/605)) (tomhughes)
+* Addition of RTL test XML (r2244, ajashton)
+* Worked on scoping Cairo context.scale() bugs - no solution quite yet (mishok13)
+* Added support for "late-binding" of datasources for better control over object creation from calling apps like Cascadenik ([#622](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/622)) (rcoup)
+* Various Improvements to shield and text positioning (artem)
+* Improvements to SVG parsing and rendering (artem)
+* Fixed feature caching when using multiple styles for faster rendering (woodpeck) ([#624](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/624))
+* Brainstormed and scoped on wiki ideas around [Compositing](Ideas_Compositing/) and [Legends](Legending) (gravitystorm, ivansanchez)
+* Added Python3 support (haoyu,springmeyer) [[Python3k]]
+* Wrote a render_debug() function to output statistics on rendering times (woodpeck)
+* Added the ability to control the timeout of expensive PostGIS queries (jburgess) [#632](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/632)
+* Started writing Spreadnik v2 in python (ivansanchez)
+* Doubled speed of the [Paleoserver](Paleoserver) for returning transparent tiles (springmeyer)
+* Fixed bugs in nik2img around double-opening of images on linux and recursively registering fonts (springmeyer)
+
+## Trac timeline
+
+http://http://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/timeline?from=09%2F29%2F10&daysback=10&ticket=on&ticket_details=on&changeset=on&update=Update
+
+## Tickets
+
+http://http://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/milestone/MCS1%20Tickets
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