gsoc2010

Hello everyone!

Hey y'all. My Google Summer of Code proposal (see Drupal for All) has been accepted, so I will be working on improving the accessibility of Drupal 7 in a few areas this summer. Mainly I plan on making accessible sub-themes of the core themes, accessible content creation (through a wysywig editor), and making Views more accessible (or at least the output). I probably will not start the actual coding until the program officially begins (May 28).

I am proposing to update the QueryPath module to D7. I will also, by extension, update the database extension in QueryPath to use the new database API, add new features to QueryPath to bring it up to date with jQuery 1.4, and update the QueryPath example modules. All of the above changes will continue the awesomeness of the QueryPath module. I have been talking to Matt Butcher and have his full support on this proposal.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Remote entities

Overview:

The aim of the project is to create a system, based on services, which will enable to transparently use entities from a different site as local entities. I will base my system on Drupal 7, because the new APIs give me the required level of flexibility for the clean implementation. I will use the Entity API module to do easy CRUD on the entities.

I think a central field management module would benefit many other modules. Currently CCK allows adding custom fields for a content type. It's not very easy to re-use these fields with a custom module.

For the same if a module could provide a central field manager, and other modules can utilise these fields by way of some API, that would be great.

Hi all!

Overview:

This project intends to enable Drupal importing data from various existing WebAPIs (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, XML, RDF, etc) and put it into Drupal's element (nodes, users, database data, etc..)

This is achieved by utilizing Views and Feeds module in Drupal.

The process of importing external data from WebAPIs will be:
external WebAPIs -> Views -> Feeds -> Drupal (nodes, users, database data, etc..)

About Me:

Hi all- as you may already know, The Google Summer of Code is about to get started for 2010. At the moment we are trying to come up with ideas that students can craft proposals around, and I was hoping that we could get a few Views related proposals. IMO- nothing can raise your community profile, outside of working a lot on core, like Views related work, and it also happens to be one of the most marketable skills within the thriving Drupal ecosystem. So- it would be great if we could get a couple of Views related projects proposed.

Please, please, please, if you have any ideas for how a student could spend three months working on views related tasks, please add ideas to the Google Summer of Code Group (and consider mentoring as well- it's an awesome way to help out, meet up and coming developers, and increase your standing within the community).

dereine already put forth a few ideas for backends for Views as a wiki on SoC group (http://groups.drupal.org/node/57168 ), which is quoted below. Because that post is a wiki I thought we could move the discussion for his proposal to this thread.

Thanks for chiming in and helping out!