Google Summer of Code 2006

I just want to draw your attention to SOC: collaborative editor. It is a summer of code project to create a (surprise, surprise) a collaborative editor for drupal. If you are interested, please consider giving feedback to Ernest. This will help him make better progress and bring an interesting and very useful functionality to Drupal.

Announcing the http://groups.drupal.org/soc-ajax-form-builder group to help guide and support Avi Mehta in his Form Builder work for SoC. Please consider joining!

Why does Google still show two unaccepted applications In my Google SoC Mentor home?

• Ralf Gueldemeister (Chat Module for Drupal )
• Martin Clarke ( Universal Secure Updating of servers )

The only one accepted is what is listed in the 2006 SoC page on Drupal, (with Owen Barton) to mentor the CCK-Profile Module for Wolfgang Ziegler.

Robert's graciously given me permission to create a community site for the SoC 2006 participants like he did last year with http://www.planet-soc.com/

Here is a listing of what I'm putting together here (hoping to get it uploaded and ready tomorrow), anyone who can think of other nice features, feel free:

Core stuff
- blog
- forum

Profile fields
- First name
- Last name
- Gender
- School
- Mentoring organization (required)
- Student or Mentor? (required)

Location module
Enable:
- City
- Province

Title says it all really. ;)

Because of massive amounts of 502 errors, Google has extended the application deadline to May 9 @ 11:00 PDT. I've changed the event to reflect this.

Also, Google has requested that mentors stop ranking applications as this is only adding to the problem. So try to stay out of the mentor admin panel unless absolutely necessary until after the deadline has passed. We still have about 2 weeks to rank and sort through apps. :)

We've lined up enough mentors. When we know who our students will be and the work gets started, we'll sanitize the group (unpublish any posts that aren't needed) and make it open for everyone. Does everyone find this plan acceptable?

Several of you evaluated this application (GData) negatively, and rightfully so. The student completely rewrote it, so please take another look.

Would be interesting to have a "supervisor" node type which makes it obsolete to decide the content-type before the creation of the node.

Should have a node-root, where you are able to assign and mix up several generic node-types.

There should be a posibility to define the order (weight) of the related fields in columns and rows ("twin" weight).

http://drupal.org/node/62120

Please review this proposal and comment, it's not to late to get students to write up a proposal.

Chat module proposal

Just put a project proposal into the bin: http://drupal.org/node/61877. I'm not sure how much it would overlap with the 'similar entries/context' proposal, and the 'social network analysis' proposal, but I think it has a lot of merit as a free-standing project. Thoughts and possible improvements appreciated.

Would anyone be interested to mentor in a project to create a tool for synching Drupal's calendar with PDAs?

We were kicking around the svn versus cvs chestnut, and I thought that perhaps we should make a proposal for making
the project / cvslog modules revisioning system agnostic. Basically separate out all the cvs'ey bits, and replace them with repository links that can understand svn / cvs / whatever a driver is written for.

I made stub entry for a wiki module project. Please add your text and ideas.

Just a note that I am in the process of composing my project proposal. it's a work in process at the moment,
and i will be updating it throughout the next day, based on various discussions / inputs.

Here's it's "home" for now : http://drupal.pastebin.com/687271

And after the jump is the latest version

Just a thought... http://drupal.org/node/60614

Can it be done? Please help beef it up!

Should have automated:

• Related content (depending on score, age; should be definable)
• Keywords generation
• View related external data (dmoz, wikipedia)
• Category assignment
• Language detection

Maybe importer of dmoz, wikipedia data like:
http://www.seitenplatz.de/Top (simple example)

It's related to modules spam. nodewords, whatsrelated, search

Caveat: I used an old version of the project module so I'm not sure if some of these are still relevant. Others may take off from this document. (i borrowed the template from Robert -- thanks!)

Project Description:

Improve Drupal's Project Module.

Motivation:

Drupal has a project module that provides basic functionality for tracking projects. However, this needs improvement. Improving the usability and usefulness of the Project Module will make it a more robust project management tool and increase/attract more users to Drupal :-).

Success criteria:

The project will be considered successful if the following features are done:

Short Description:

Create a Drupal module, which implements a Document Management workflow.

Motivation

Drupal has all of the essentials for a document management platform - document revisions, classification, support for storing a variety of document types. It lacks support for the typical document management workflows used in the industry.

Problem description

A typical workflow might look as this:

1. create a user copy of the document in their workspace
2. do some work
3. commit the document back