SoC 2008

 

 
Problems:

• Drupal's core aggregator does not satisfy the requirements of state
  of the art aggregation applications. E. g. core aggregator lacks
  pluggable configurations or the possibility of creating nodes from
  feed items.
• There is an explosion of contrib modules that try to cover the
  deficiencies of Drupal's aggregator in one or the other way. Previous
  attempts to unify aggregation functionality had limited success.

I'd like to integrate acid free album support to flash gallery module and enable it to work with cck and image field in this year's Gsoc. I'm now a college student and I wish I can participate in this great project.

Moved to official ideas list at http://drupal.org/node/237646

Google announced that they will open up Youtube's API . This means sites can have the ability to upload video transparently. The API is here.

Sites can have a chromeless player (non Youtube branded) too.

Added to official ideas list at http://drupal.org/node/234692

As we all know, one of the most important functions of the Internet is sharing of information and while some of the information share may be of questionable value, there are huge numbers of research and educational institutions producing vast numbers of scholarly publications which, when shared in a free and open fashion, help to build the global knowledge base. That being said, each discipline of research tends to have different preferences for displaying references to their publications. Creating and maintaining hundreds of formating specifications is incredibly tedious so this is where CiteProc comes in.

Following Yelvington I'm crossposting this to the following groups: SOC2008, Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal and Search

One thing that would be really cool, is a module integrating http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ and Drupal. Our experience is that core search doesn't play nice when you have alot of nodes (we have 150.000+). Indexing simply kills the server.

So instead we use Sphinx. It's REALLY fast, both when searching and when indexing. BUT everytime we alter our content-types we have to manually reconfigure the sphinx configuration. This is why I propose this as a module for the SOC08 - a module that integrates Sphinxsearch and Drupal

Status: Added to official ideas list http://drupal.org/node/234652

I'm crossposting this to the following groups, all of which have a dog in this hunt: SOC2008, Knight Foundation, Newspapers on Drupal, RSS & Aggregation.

News agencies, "legacy" newsroom management system implementors, publishers and archiving companies all support an XML standard called News Industry Text Format (NITF), developed by the International Press Telecommunications Council.

We need a robust, broadly supported common NITF feed handler that works with the Drupal FeedAPI framework, ultimately enabling loading of NITF data into CCK nodes with configurable entity mapping. This feed handler should expose its own API so that additional handlers can be added to process NewsML (primarily championed by Reuters) and Atom wrappers (used by the Associated Press in AP Exchange).

Summary:
I want to write two modules for Drupal as part of Google Summer of Code. One called meme_tracker and the other called machine_learning_api. The meme_tracker module will use the machine_learning_api to intelligently filter and group content from both internal and external content sources. The module's purpose is to find and display to a community in real time the most interesting conversations and memes within the community as they emerge.

Hello Drupliers. My name is Kyle Mathews. I'm a grad student in Information Systems at Brigham Young University working as a research assistant to several faculty members here. We are studying how and where social software can be used in education.

In the past eight months, I've built a number of classroom websites using Drupal. I've learned a considerable bit about Drupal in the process, became very involved in the community, and am writing a module (writing_assignment -- still a work in progress btw). I've loved most everything about Drupal but have found Drupal is missing an important component for building the perfect social learning website. This itches. So, in the best open-source fashion, I'm applying to Google Summer of Code to scratch my itch.

Shimmie is a danbooru-styled PHP image repository/gallery. (example) It's widely-used in anime communities. At the moment, I run Shimmie along with my Drupal site and notice that it would be good to integrate them together. We may need to modify some of Shimmie code and ship a modified version with the module.

Moved to official ideas list at http://drupal.org/node/237902

Overview
The aim of this project is to overhaul some of the core functionality of ubercart -- It would be good if the student either had experience with e-commerce systems or a strong (and odd) addiction to them. However, if you just look at newegg.com and are at awe at what it does -- this project is for you.