Welcome potential Google Summer of Code 2012 students and mentors!
SoC 2012 Announcements from Google.
If you already know what you want to do just create a discussion.
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers post-secondary student developers ages 18 and older stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We have worked with open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects over a three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 6000 successful student participants and over 3000 mentors from over 100 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.
This group is for posting and discussing GSoC project ideas, as well as for general conversation that relates to the SoC. You can also get help on the #drupal-contribute IRC channel on freenode (irc://irc.freenode.net/drupal-contribute).
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SUBMIT PROJECT IDEAS OR TO RE-SUBMIT IDEAS FROM LAST YEAR!
Finally, read HOWTO: Write a Summer of Code application.
[GSoC proposal] SVG integration into drupal using svg-edit
Project page on drupal.org: not created yet
Student: Rodrigo (rodrigoaguilera)
Mentor: still looking
Synopsis
Drupal image handling and all image related contributed modules assumes that all images are in some bitmap format but forgets about vector graphics. Vector graphics and its open Standard SVG have grown in importance over the past few years with extensible support in all the major web browsers and mobile devices.
Project
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[GSoC Proposal] Search API Statistics
Project information
Project page on drupal.org: not created yet
Student: Michael Timofeev (mtee)
Mentor: Thomas Seidl (drunken_monkey)
Co-mentor(s): (klausi)
Local mentor(s): Thomas Seidl
Current status: developing
Overview
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[GSoC Proposal] Help Topic module for the Drupal Documentation Team and for the help system
[GSoC proposal] Enhancing Feedback module (D7)
Project Information:
Project Page: http://drupal.org/project/feedback
Name: Manu Chaudhary(manu4543)
Mentor: Alex Weber(alexweber)
Email: manu_talkin@yahoo.com
Skype: manu4543
IRC: manu4543 (#drupal, #drupal-contribute)
Overview:
Read more[GSoC proposal] Extend microdata support to contrib field types
Project information
Project page: http://drupal.org/project/microdata
Student: Anca Dumitrache (colette)
Mentor: Lin Clark (linclark)
Description
Read moreContent Sorting Module - User Views based
Drupal is all about viewing contents and ways to mange to , but users are also an integral part . So the main idea is to store no of times each user has been to a page (or node) and make content that is viewed more often by user promoted to the higher weights in the website. this would help article (or posts ) with greater interest among the people to appear more significantly in the web site. it will store various variables which will help to sort contents in block regions based on various aspects such most recent , most visited etc .
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[GSOC: Proposal] Port Og_panels to D7 and Improve Message notify to make it the source of email notifications
Providing customizable Group homepages by updating the OG_Panels module to Drupal 7 and "Making it possible to reply to GDO notifications through email by integrating message notify and mailcomment.module"
Abstract
I would like to work for D.O. this summer, so thinking to contribute to G.D.O. tasks. It [ groups.drupal.org ] is going to be migrated in D7. Two of the tasks is to port og_panels module to D7 and extend message_notify to improve & make it source of email notifications. So would love to pick these two tasks up.
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[Project] Materialization Plugin for Views
Personal Details
Name: Dhruv Baldawa (dhruvbaldawa)
IRC:dhruvbaldawa
School Name: Thakur College of Engineering and Technology
Years Completed: Final Year
PHP Experience: Advanced
Twitter: @dhruvbaldawa
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruvbaldawa
GitHub: https://www.github.com/dhruvbaldawa
Abstract:
This project aims to write a materialization plugin for Views. It creates a "materialized view" for a "view", and then materialize the results into temporary tables. And then, the following Views calls would be redirected to the materialized view. The changes would be made to the materialized view, when data in the view changes (or sometimes even drop the entire materialized view)
[GSoC Proposal] Personal Identity Verification for Drupal
Develop a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) module that could be implemented into the Drupal CMS platform to allow for two-factor authentication using a Smart Card (SC) or US Government Department of Defense Common Access Card (CAC) card for verification and access to secure website environments.
There was once sandbox-related activity found here http://drupal.org/sandbox/larquin/1292622 , but it seems to have been abandoned.
Read more[GSoC Proposal] Sales Reports for Drupal Commerce
Abstract
Drupal Commerce is used to build eCommerce websites and applications of all sizes. It was built with a framework mindset, focusing what you can build with it.
The project is currently maintained by Ryan Szrama and the Commerce Guys.
Read more[GSoC Proposal] Amazon Mechanical Turk Integration with Drupal
The Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk) is a Amazon Web Service that allows site owners to outsource tasks requiring human intelligence at relatively low cost. Mturk may be used for a wide range of purposes including image labeling, transcription, categorization, and spam filtering in various fields and industries not limited to e-commerce, research, online community, social networking. In order for Drupal to fully utilize Mturk, I propose designing an easy to install module to work with Mturk from the Drupal interface.
Read more[GSoC Proposal]Repo Families for Better Colaboration
Abstract
Although Drupal has switched to Git for its Version Control needs for about an year, yet the workflow is by and far patch based, when it comes to collaborating. While some choose the path of creating sandboxes and then create an issue in the main project, yet we are far from using the power of distributed workflow that Git offers us. The following proposal aims at providing the base of using Git-like workflow while collaborating on projects.
Previous Discussion(Summary)
The detailed description of repo-families can be found here[2].
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[GSOC: Proposal] Polldaddy integration
Name : Nitesh Kumar
Email : creative2all@gmail.com
Irc nick : nit3ch
twitter : nit3ch
skype : nitesh-bhardwaj
blog : http://nit3ch.wordpress.com
github : https://github.com/nit3ch
I am currently a student of B.Tech in information technology at Engineering College Bikaner.
Have you contributed to a open source project before?
I am a mozilla campus representative for our college.
Drupal as a print CMS using Scribus
Steve Yelvington started a discussion about using Drupal as a print CMS back in 2006 at http://groups.drupal.org/node/2018. Scribus was mentioned as one possible layout package. In 2009, some work was done as a proof of concept by Mariusz Słonina at http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Drupal_integration but I don't think it was ever finished. Hendrik Grahl has written about interfacing Scribus to a CMS at his blog, http://www.grahl.ch/category/posts/scribus.
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Phone / SMS / VoIP integration with Commerce, Open Atrium, Drupal Commons and CiviCRM
Hello everyone,
I wonder if anyone would like to partner with me to mentor GSoC projects that provide phone, SMS, and VoIP capabilities to Commerce, Open Atrium, Drupal Commons and/or CiviCRM.
Read moreMedia : Facebook Gallery
Create a module that would fetch images from facebook and displays them as gallery on your Drupal site.
This would saves our sites on bandwidth and time.
And future we could do the same for other image hosting sites.
Its like when you embed youtube and vimeo videos on your site
Read more[GSoC Proposal] Port the Version Control API to Drupal 7
Abstract
The Version Control API is an engine for Drupal integration with a variety of version control systems. It delivers an interface to these systems for use with various development-oriented modules, like Project.
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Drupal as LMS Initiative GSOC2012
Drupalcon was a great leep forward for education. Drupal is taking off in k-12, university and private sector training usage for the delivery of educational materials. A mixed group of people passionate about education and training got together for a learning management system (LMS) BoF at Drupalcon. You can read some of the conclusions of that group here http://groups.drupal.org/node/219814
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Site Page Emailer
Site Page Emailer
In this module we have to make a drop down of every title and post to allow for the body of a sites page or a link to be emailed to recipients on the fly, from the sites page.
A dropdown menu in a site with the titles of all child posts under the current
page and a text field for an email address that you want to send the page to and a button to send. It might be possible to embed the HTML of the page directly into the email, so all formatting, pictures, etc are preserved. Not sure. If not, perhaps just a short note and a link to the page itself.
[Gsoc Idea]Polldaddy Integration
hi all,
Lots of great idea by community , some of them fascinated me lot. But I will like to share my idea for Gsoc 2012.
overview
i will like to integrate polldaddy with drupal ,till now there is no module which is available for polldaddy. For now polldaddy's api support polling and rating .Lot of interesting stuff can be done.
This is just an idea , would love hear feedbacks from community.
thanks
