There are several organizations with minimal funding (like OSGeo) that will benefit from this. There are several infrastructure libraries under that umbrella...

There are several organizations with minimal funding (like OSGeo) that will benefit from this. There are several infrastructure libraries under that umbrella... A geospatial data abstraction library is not as sexy as an end-user app with a GUI, but pretty much most of the reason of why you can open a satellite image in your favorite desktop app (open source and proprietary) is because of libraries like GDAL. A single student, for a summer, for a project like that makes a difference. Thank you to the GSoC organizers for this!