soc 2009

Planet-SoC is back for a fourth year. Since 2005 we've acted as a community for summer of code students.

Using Drupal 6, this site was allowed to use a myriad of new features, which especially our centered around contrib modules like Views, CCK, FeedAPI, Faceted Search and Captcha.

This is a proposal to bring Open Sound Control (OSC) capabilities to Drupal.

Open Sound Control (OSC) is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology (see opensoundcontrol.org for more info)

Overview:
This project focuses on handling node conflicts. Currently when a user tries to save a node that has been edited (and saved) before they have submitted, an error appears and the edit is blocked. This module aims to resolve these issues automatically if possible. If not, it will provide tools and an interface to interactively merge the two different versions of the node.

This discussion is focused upon hints, tips, and suggestions for how to succeed in a SoC project.

First, some background statistics. The summer of code in 2008 had 23 projects that were accepted and 20 succeeded.

According to Alex, the most important factors for a SoC project are:

• proposal quality
• past student work (i.e. students with a track record are more likely to succeed, thus more likely to get accepted).
• the amount of interaction the student has in the community
• the reputation of the mentors

UPDATED ON MAY 9, 2009

Overview: This proposal is about the development of a new system that enable users to manage opinions in an advanced way. It should become the evolution of bulletin boards (forums) and it will be developed to replace them.

Mentors:

• Greg Knaddison

Difficulty: medium

The "HOWTO" and "General Requirements" documents have been posted on the group page for Google Summer of Code 2009.

This project was never finished in 2008, and we would like to invite people to continue work on it in 2009 SoC.

Chart style plug-ins for Views module: http://drupal.org/node/236453