SoC 2008

for putting in so much time and effort into Drupal's participation and wrangling us wild and woolly SoC crowd. On the outside it might appear that SoC just happens automagically and students hookup with orgs overnight but as we saw with our own eyes, there's a huge amount of work the org admins have to put in to get slots from Google and get proposals scored and mentored. So thanks webchick for making Drupal SoC a great experience and being an outstanding member of the awesome Drupal community.

Welcome, accepted Summer of Code students! This post contains important information about prerequisites for starting your project. Please read it carefully.

Google has awarded Drupal 21 slots for Google Summer of Code. This year there were many strong applications, and narrowing the field to the top 21 was not an easy task. Thanks to all the mentors who helped out with the evaluating, and congratulations to all of the students. We look forward to working with you this summer! :)

Although coding doesn't formally kick off until May 26, according to Google's program timeline, there are a few things that need to get sorted out first. If you have questions about how to do any of these things, don't be shy! :) Post to the http://groups.drupal.org/soc-2008 or ask in #drupal on irc.freenode.net, and we'll get you hooked up.

We have been pondering about how to best evangelize China into the Drupal community -- and in droves.

After operating in China for two years, and despite of our best trying such as holding the Drupal BootCamp event in Beijing http://www.drupalchina.org/node/3638, our biggest challenge is the practicality of getting Chinese acquainted with Drupal -- BEFORE we can even talk about having them participate into the DROP program, let alone directly contribute into module or theme writing.

Hi
I attached the my proposal and need a comment on it
TNks

 Drupal is very useful for many people in the sense that is reliable, easy to use. This makes Drupal a very good choice for organisations who are looking for a web presence. As of today the use of internet by small businesses(SME) is limited to giving information about their company to the outside world, which acts as a advertising tool. 
I would like to take this further by enabling them to give support to their customers which will be of real value to the organisaions, saving their valuable time.

CDMUG is at a Open Source conference called Flourish 2008 promoting Drupal. It is put on by the students at University of Illinois at Chicago. I remember some PDF flyers that were available to promote SoC with Drupal. Does anyone have a link?

2008 Google Summer of Code Application: Steven King

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Overview
I would like to work on a multi-factor authentication system for Drupal. I want to implement the Perfect-Paper-Passwords multi-factor authentication system created by Steve Gibson (www.grc.com/ppp) as a Drupal module. In creating this system I will also evaluate the feasibility of creating a multi-factor API so other multi-factor login systems will be easier to implement in the future.

Project Specifics

Hello community

Since drupals' major work is manage text, it is a great opportunity for me to apply a large theory that I've learn processing text with computer. Let me explain you my idea.

Basically my idea is use Artificial intelligence to categorize text based on similarities, this mean that it will learn from previous text as examples.

This can be useful for suggest categories, tags or anything else to new text when it is written.