Update (#20)

* preparing for gsoc2022

* ideas page updated

* updates

Author: ReimarBauer

docs/04_gsoc.md

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-# In Preparation
 
 # Contacting the MSS team
 If you want to contribute to Mission Support System, 
-please consider joining our Slack channel [https://mss-devel.slack.com](https://mss-devel.slack.com), 
-where we discuss everything related to the development of the project and we can answer 
-all your questions related to the project. You can join the channel by sending us an 
-email at <[email protected]>.
+You can talk to us on channel #mss by the [libera chat](https://web.libera.chat/?nick=Guest&#mss) 
+this is connected to our gsoc slack channel. Please stay connected, we are in different timezones. 
+To join us on slack please send  us an email to <[email protected]>. 
+On the  Slack channel [https://mss-devel.slack.com](https://mss-devel.slack.com) we will 
+discuss everything related to the development of the project and we can answer 
+all your questions related to the project. 
+
 
 # Questions 
 If you have any question please feel free to ask any of the mentors on our #gsoc slack channel.
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 ## Difficulty level: Medium
  * [msui: Catalogue Service For The Web (CSW)](/develop/GSOC/catalogue_service_for_the_web)
- * [cli: Advanced CLI Plotting](/develop/GSOC/automated_plotting)
  * [msui: Modernize fs_filepicker](/develop/GSOC/modernize_fs_filepicker)
+ * [cli: Advanced CLI Plotting](/develop/GSOC/automated_plotting)
  * [cli: Improve Tutorials](/develop/GSOC/improve_tutorials)
  * [wms: Plot Gallery integrated](/develop/GSOC/integrated_plot_gallery)
+ * [wms: mplement and support color bars being served](/develop/GSOC/color_bars_served)
  * [msui/wms: UI and server improvements](/develop/GSOC/ui_server_improvements)
  * [msui/msc: View Layout and Restoring](/develop/GSOC/view_restoring)
+
 
 
 

docs/develop/GSOC/support_color_bars_being_served.md

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+---
+layout: page 
+title: GSOC Idea
+permalink: /develop/GSOC/color_bars_served
+exclude: true
+---
+## mswms: Properly implement and support color bars being served separately from the map
+
+- **Project description**:
+
+  The WMS standard supports delivering color bars as separate image. 
+  This is supported in a very basic fashion by the MSUI, but not at all by the MSWMS. 
+  In particular in combination with multi-layering, the colorbar must be displayed separately to remain 
+  usable (currently all our colorbars are displayed at the same location).
+
+This task entails
+
+1. implementing support for this feature in the MSWMS backend
+2. properly address "nice" displaying of the colorbar in the frontend for typical use-cases (i.e. less than 3 bars)
+3. Revamping the existing plotting layers to use this feature.
+
+- **Duration**: 175h
+- **Skills**: Python, QT, UI programming, Git
+- **Difficulty level**: Medium
+- **Related Readings/Links**:
+  - https://github.com/Open-MSS/MSS/issues/1375
+  - https://www.ogc.org/standards/wms
+- **Potential mentors**: [email protected], [email protected]