SoC 2009

Reminder to all students AND mentors that GSoC 2014 student applications are due this Friday March 21st at 19:00-UTC. Moving forward all students need to be submitting applications directly into Melange for review. Students need practice submitting proposals into Melange to realize it can be a pain and understand Google will NOT accept ANY late proposals.

Originally posted in our GSoC group. More info about GCI in a few months...Join us in #drupal-google or the new group if you want to learn more @ https://groups.drupal.org/google-summer-code

Our awesome community recently became a bit more awesome. Drupal was accepted into Google's Summer of Code 2014! Student applications started March 10th and are open until March 21st. It's not too late to become a student, mentor, or submit a project idea. Not available to join the GSoC fun...maybe you can send an email to your alumni university mailing list?

Major announcement! The 10th annual Google Summer of Code application period kicked off Monday, February 3rd (GSoC 2014 announcement from Google[1]).

Please join http://groups.drupal.org/google-summer-code-2012 for participating in Google Summer of Code 2012 :)

DrupalCamp and drupalCons are drupal events are happening throughout the year all over the globe. But there are many drupaltista's are out there who are unable to attend those great events of drupal worlds.

Can't we have a online drupalcamp? A online platform for all and available 24x7 for every drupaltistas.

I would happy to listen your voice/thought here about this idea.

Hi all- as you may already know, The Google Summer of Code is about to get started for 2010. At the moment we are trying to come up with ideas that students can craft proposals around, and I was hoping that we could get a few Views related proposals. IMO- nothing can raise your community profile, outside of working a lot on core, like Views related work, and it also happens to be one of the most marketable skills within the thriving Drupal ecosystem. So- it would be great if we could get a couple of Views related projects proposed.

Please, please, please, if you have any ideas for how a student could spend three months working on views related tasks, please add ideas to the Google Summer of Code Group (and consider mentoring as well- it's an awesome way to help out, meet up and coming developers, and increase your standing within the community).

dereine already put forth a few ideas for backends for Views as a wiki on SoC group (http://groups.drupal.org/node/57168 ), which is quoted below. Because that post is a wiki I thought we could move the discussion for his proposal to this thread.

Thanks for chiming in and helping out!

I'm excited to announce that the Google Summer of Code is happening again in 2010! Last year Drupal went a perfect 18-for-18, meaning that all of our students passed the SoC, and we even got a "bonus student" who worked on Drupal module for the Creative Commons.

Please help get the SoC started by joining the Google Summer of Code 2010 group, and by posting project ideas to the group! Student Proposals should be marked as such in the "Project Type", as the students will get first dibs on that project idea once the voting starts. All other project ideas should be marked "Community Proposal" and will be open to all SoC applicants.

If you are a student thinking of applying to the program I highly suggest you do the following things:

So we're this close to an alpha for the Media module (for d7). There are only a few outstanding critical alpha-blocking issues that need to be resolved. I'd hoped to have it today, but it looks like it'll probably be Monday.

Next week is the time for you to jump in if you're interested in developing for the project! It's been loads of fun, from the initial discussions and plans over a year ago with arthurf, dopry, drewish, Roger López, myself and others, to fantastic core Drupal 7 integration of stream wrappers by pwolanin and GSOC student jmstacey, to some powerhouse #d7ux magic by mverbaar and Jody Lynn, to the latest overhaul introducing Media fieldable entities (with an eye for core Drupal 8) and WYSIWYG integration by JacobSingh and dipen chaudhary, with some potential upcoming fine-tuning from jQuery guru dmitrig01.

If you're interested, join us in IRC at #drupal-media. After giving the module a spin (you'll need Drupal 7 Alpha 1, Media, Styles, and WYSIWYG + CKEditor, and optionally Media: Flickr and/or Media: YouTube), you should subscribe to the Issue queue. (You can also see recent screenshots at AaronWinborn.com.)

Fellow Media Moguls,

We're shaking off the dust from the Media module, which was sadly neglected during the heady Summer of Code, where we got Stream Wrappers into core! I'm excited to meet now with my fellow Drupalistas, and get the module presentable for Drupal 7 (and Drupal 6, if anyone is interested in helping on that front).

I'm at DrupalCon Paris right now, and between the amazing people, interesting sessions, and gorgeous City of Lights, I only have a few moments, but I wanted to make a quick (and exciting) announcement. The Google Summer of Code officially wrapped up last week, and the Drupal students and mentors did an amazing job this year. "How amazing?," you ask. Well, not only did all 18 of the students that worked directly with Drupal mentors successfully complete their projects, but we got an extra bonus successful student.

Thanks to the support of GSoC'09, I was able to develop the Recommender Bundle for Drupal, which includes the following modules:

http://drupal.org/project/recommender
http://drupal.org/project/history_rec
http://drupal.org/project/fivestar_rec
http://drupal.org/project/voting_rec
http://drupal.org/project/uc_rec
http://drupal.org/project/similargroups
http://drupal.org/project/media_rec (not developed)

This is the eighth and last update of the Rules Monkey Summer of Code project. Summer of Code is over, time to do a summary:

• I worked on 13 issues in the Rules issue queue and on 2 in the Workflow issue queue.
• I created a new submodule of Rules: Rules forms support.

Here the last 3-weeks WU :-)

Now the details.

Students and Mentors, the summer is drawing to a close, and you know what that means: time for your final evaluations.

According to the calendar Final Evaluations are to begin on August 17th, with those evaluations due by August 24th, so the time to wrap things up is NOW!

I'll be traveling until the 24th, so please e-mail me if you have any questions.

Thanks and good luck finishing up!

This is the seventh update of the Rules Monkey Summer of Code project. The progress we made last week:

• Rules has now some new icons in the admin area (including some other usability fixes)
• Patches are ready for two new Rules form support features: disabling elements and setting a default value

This is the sixth update of the Rules Monkey Summer of Code project. Many good news:

• Form support for Rules has been committed, have fun!
• Fago gave me CVS access to Rules, because I will be the Form support maintainer (I will try to not break Rules ;-)
• We did some research for new icons in Rules.
• I worked on some usability details, the corresponding issue also contains the new icons.

Today I finished up the last strokes (to me at least) of the bot authentication, which I added to my sandbox repository. In the past few weeks I have struggled with making the simpletest of the bot working reliably, so we decided with Morbus to move ahead with the other submodules. (even tho, i figured there is another way to make this work, with either a CLI client, or using the PHP filesockets, will do this when i got some time).

Well, I miss one WU, but here the 2-weeks update :-D .. a little late :-p

Week 1: Making backend class abstraction work with git backend and planning interfaces again.
in the middle: lot of sdboyer interaction!
Week 2: Choose where to use interfaces and where inheritance can make the work better.

Now the details.

This is the fifth update of the Rules Monkey Summer of Code project. Implementation of the form support in Rules is on the way.

• The form support code is located in a sub-module of Rules
• Rules admins can activate/deactivate events on selected forms
• Form element IDs are made visible for the Rules admin on the selected form
• Currently there are 3 events: "form is being built", "form is validated" and "form is submitted"
• There is one condition to check a form element value

The Apache Solr RDF module is now in a state, where it can already, theoretically, be used. However, there is much room for improvement, so I'd like to discuss some possible ways to do this.