SoC 2008

Awaiting suggestions before I set my own standards

I've pushed up an alpha release of memetracker to cvs and created a dev release. This is not production ready code. In fact the only thing impressive about the code is that it works at all and does something vaguely resembling what memetrackers are supposed to do.
Link to original proposal

How to install memetracker:

Those of you paying attention to the SoC timeline will note that mid-terms are July 7, 2008. At that time, two things will happen:

1. Both students and mentors will be required to fill out a small survey from Google. Monitor the mailing list for details.
2. Students will be required to release an initial alpha version of their projects that the community can play around with and test. Extra bonus points for having a public demo site that people can click and try!

"But webchick!," I hear you cry, "It's only half way through SoC! My project isn't done yet! How can I possibly release an alpha version?!" It's quite easy, actually:

I just submitted a session for Drupalcon Szeged 2008 that's a showcase of all the completed Summer of Code projects. This allows any Summer of Code students in attendance to stand up and demo their hard work, to much ooohing and aaahing from the collective audience. :) If you've never been to a Drupalcon, it's an awesome time, and a chance to meet many of your mentors, hang out and hack/share ideas, and very possibly end up with a job. ;)

If you're planning to come (and you totally should), you should register before June 30th to get the cheapest registration price. More details at http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/.

So, who's coming? :D

Greetings, SoC Students!

One of the requirements for completing Summer of Code (aka, getting paid! ;)) is to post weekly status reports about your project each Tuesday. These reports should go in your projects' wiki pages (following the template) in a section marked "Status updates." Ah, yes. You didn't think this whole summer was going to be nothing but fun, sun, and code, did you now? ;) Just kidding. :)

Now, as we all know, writing status reports takes away from valuable coding time. That's why all we're looking for is 3 sentences from you each week:

1. What did you get done this week?
2. What are you planning to do over the next week?
3. Is there anything you're blocked on?

I'm a GSoC student for 2008. My project is Usability Testing Suite and I have created a flow for how I think it should work and would like feedback as to the viability of it.

Please comment on the issue, not this discussion.

Thanks.

Project schedule and status: http://groups.drupal.org/node/11011

So, for GSoC, my project is, for lack of a better name, Plugin Manager.

It's designed to retrieve a list of all modules and themes available for the version of Drupal that a server is using. It then allows the Drupal administrator to automatically retrieve and install the modules and themes they desire (as well as their dependencies). Just to be perfectly honest, the group that I want to cater to the most is the group that wants a website and has no idea what tar.gz means.