What's up designers? As some of you may know I'm heading up the google summer of code this year for Drupal (for background on the GSoC see: http://drupal.org/google-summer-of-code/2009 ). I'm not sure what big items need to get created in order to make Drupal theming more awesomer, which is why I'm asking for your help!
We absolutely have to have a design related project in this year's Summer of Code! (Obviously just my opinion, but I think it's very, very important) In order for that to happen we need ideas for projects, and the window to get the projects in is pretty short. So- who wants to help get some major design work done for Drupal? All you have to do is go to http://drupal.org/google-summer-of-code/2009 and create a discussion with your idea.
And remember, not only might we get some killer Design features from a student's work, but we might find a design-oriented webchick out there!
Any ideas?
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A successor to the image module
The Drupal community desprately needs a way to add images to a site using multiple content types, not just the single one offered by the image module. This will allow sites to have square images for user profiles, with landscapes and portraits for other images. It also will allow image cache to render different sizes that are appropriate to the size of the image
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a little confused
what are you proposing that imagecache/imagefield cant already handle? its already easy to upload an image at whatever size you want and have it appear differently in different contexts. not saying this isn't a good idea, i just don't understand it.
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You might be right, but the
You might be right, but the proper workflow for image management isn't documented anywhere.
More importantly, Drupal needs to include an enterprise-grade image management solution, or it's going to be passed up on some major RFPs. I can think of a few publishers that are running smack-dab into image management issues when their libraries grow to tens or hundreds of thousands of images.
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proper image galleries
Here's a scenario: your client has a big event, and the next morning they want to upload the images to the site in a cute image gallery, much like SlideShowPro or Lightbox.
The problem is, you don't want the client anywhere near views, taxonomy, or blocks. You'd also like for them to be able to reorder the the image gallery by dragging and dropping. Better, yet they'd be able to key in captions directly next to the thumbnails.
The galleries would have fields for proper metadata by default. In an ideal world, the images would upload with the EXIF metadata attached, and they would also be able to read IPTC metadata for image credits, etc. Since those images may get repurposed, you'd need imagecache to re-attach the EXIF and IPTC metadata to every new size it renders. This will go a very long way to making Drupal more compatible and more useful with assets management software.
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theme project
I have an idea of designing and building a flexible, robust, recolorable theme for Drupal. I recently worked on integrating the color module with one of my themes and had the idea of designing a nice theme from scratch with color module integration in mind. I would also like the theme to include some jQuery plug-ins built in, like for example a slideshow which you could configure on the theme settings page. Does this sound like something worth doing a proposal for? Oh and I just handed in my dissertation a few weeks ago, am I still considered a student?
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Student Eligibility
Here the official link ipwa:
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/faqs#st...