SoC 2008

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Hi Guys
I am Binod Chandran from India. I would like to participate in Gsoc 2008 through Drupal.
I have been using and playing with Drupal for around 2yrs.I had contributed to Drupal through Ghop held 3 months back.

I have experience working with languages like C,C++.Currently learning PHP.knows Basic MySql.

My project proposal for GSoC 2008 is Games module for Drupal integrating the pnFlashgames [http://www.pnflashgames.com]Game Component into Drupal.

Hi,

I'd like to present an idea for the 2008 google summer of code (and in a more general way an idea for Drupal).
The idea is about using flat files instead of a database. After googling a little, it seems that the idea is not new (http://drupal.org/node/124353 and http://drupal.org/node/216485). However, it seems that no visible results are here now.

I've just completed the first release of the brandnew module called 'GeoUser'.
You can test and make a review here:
http://drupal.org/project/geouser

I am planning to add more features into this module during SoC
A Flash geographic map from yahoo or google.
allow or restrict user's registration from specific geographic location
search or filter users from specific geographic locations.

Any mentor interested in this proposal or like to help me completed it , feel free to contact me:
zidong39@gmail.com

Based on the Refactor revisions to use a version control system proposal changed, I post this proposal.

The problem

Core only allows the first user that sumbit the node form to save the changes; so the others have to see the saved node again and manually make the changes, hoping no other user save it before he does it. Clearly, it's a really slow way to make a contributed document.

If you have some spare cycles this weekend, come help out with this:

http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2008-March/029362.html

Would be a tremendous opportunity for Drupal if we can assemble a small team on this in a hurry.

Btw, please make this a secondary priority over reviewing student applications. Those are due Monday too. :)

Update - If you are willing to help, email dmitrig01@gmail.com -- dmitrig01

Ok, this is going to get me into trouble, but nevertheless:

Christian Weilbach, long-time KDE developer, has posted a lengthy critique of Google's intentions with the GSoC on his blog (which is running on Drupal, btw). The lack of paragraph usage makes it a bit hard to read, hopefully that'll be fixed soon, but nonetheless I find it very worth the read, even if one doesn't necessarily need to agree with his point of view.

Abstract

This is a proposal to extend Views with the goal of enabling Drupal semantic data sharing and interop out-of-the-box by writing views style-plugins that can spit out node lists as XML, OPML, RDF, JSON, and XHTML.

For example if you created a view with a list of events and details, you could with one click generate a page containing events in the hCalendar microformat or as items in Exhibit JSON format. Similarly lists of user profiles could be output as FOAF profiles in RDF or in the XHTML hCard format. Lists of forum posts could be output as RDF documents using the SIOC vocabulary. Or a simple list containing books from a personal book collection could be output as OPML. This idea is motivated by the accelerating activity around Semantic Web data sharing. The ultimate realization of this idea would be to enable a Drupal site operator to share datasets from her site already constructed through the Views UI in one of several open and reusable formats based on XML, XHTML or JSON, which would be consumable by other Web agents.

A Block that builds a list of blogs in the sidebar of the website. (single-profile site).

Maybe have option for (multi-profile) Drupal sites to list their favorite blogs in the sidebar of each users blog (My Account).

Would like to see this built with cck fields. The current blogroll module is out of date (4.6) the SoC project should provide a Drupal 5, 6 version..

A cck field for links and name then creating a block out of each field.