summer of code 2010

The goal of this project is to build a generic Search API that will on the one hand abstract from the data source (using the entity_metadata module) — thus allowing all kinds of entities to be as easily indexed and searched as nodes —, and from the indexer / search engine on the other hand, making concrete implementations like Solr, Lucene, Xapian, … implement only the specific details and thereby eliminating unnecessary code duplication.
Also the gathered metadata and the search engine interface could be used to create a generic Views integration for all searches, thus letting all supported searches display their results as a configurable view.
The planned overall design is sketched in the attached diagram.

Just like Wordpress for Android. This is an application for Android to manage multiple Drupal sites for common tasks such as content/comment managements, user approval, comment notification and so on.

Goals

• Configure and manage multiple Drupal sites
• Moderate nodes and comments as well as reply to comments
• Create node with upload attachments
• Notification for new nodes and new comments

Background Knowledge

• XML-RPC
• Android - We can use Wordpress for Android as a basement. http://android.svn.wordpress.org/

I have been thinking of a module that could be created on Drupal to promote car sharing, or car pooling. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to complete it, at least for this year, so I thought I would throw in a project proposal.

The basic background idea would be something along the lines of the module being used by a website that has a number of participants who travel to the same destination. Examples are universities, colleges, workplaces. Even better examples would be music festivals.

I'm excited to announce that the Google Summer of Code is happening again in 2010! Last year Drupal went a perfect 18-for-18, meaning that all of our students passed the SoC, and we even got a "bonus student" who worked on Drupal module for the Creative Commons.

Please help get the SoC started by joining the Google Summer of Code 2010 group, and by posting project ideas to the group! Student Proposals should be marked as such in the "Project Type", as the students will get first dibs on that project idea once the voting starts. All other project ideas should be marked "Community Proposal" and will be open to all SoC applicants.

If you are a student thinking of applying to the program I highly suggest you do the following things: