Google Summer of Code

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drunken monkey's picture

Improving the Search API

As some of you might know, in last year's GSoC I created the Search API module, which has already gained some fame since then. It's a highly flexible search solution for Drupal 7, already coming with support for Views and facetted searches out-of-the-box, amongst other things.
Still, like all software, it isn't perfect and there are still a number of known shortcomings, as well as other potential for improvement. So for this Google Summer of Code, I propose to fix some of these shortcomings, and add some additional features.
The tasks I'd have in mind are the following (in order of importance):

The last two are of course the buffers for any remaining time at the end — even when I'm done with the others, there will always be numerous ways to improve tests and documentation.

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tpfeiffer's picture

GSoC 2011 Idea: Integrating Drupal/Ubercart with OpenERP

My idea for the GSoC 2011 is to work further on the Drupal/Ubercart/OpenERP integration such that persons (users/clients), products (descriptions, prices, availability, ...), orders (invoices, shipping, ...), and maybe other entities are synchronized between Ubercart and OpenERP.

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drunken monkey's picture

Creating a generic Search API

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.

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adityakg's picture

Integrating Views output into Feeds Module for further processing - as suggested by @dereine

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:

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Alex UA's picture

Views Projects for Google Summer of Code 2010

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!

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auzigog's picture

Grants for Summer Drupal Project - Project Management Tool for Activists

Hello all,

After attending the recent Eugene Drupal Users Group meeting, I wanted to reach out to some local networks of programmers to see if anyone had any ideas to contribute to a project that I am planning for this summer: A project management tool for activists, organizers and social movements.

I'm a student at the University of Oregon, a computer science minor, an environmental studies major and an activist. I have directed many issue/election campaigns and I started a new student group on campus. I work with organizers from across the NW on campaigns related to climate change.

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Alex UA's picture

The Google Summer of Code 2010 is a go!

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:

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Alex UA's picture

Turn it to 11: Drupal goes 19-for-18 in the Google Summer of Code

I'm at DrupalCon Paris right now, and between the amazing people, interesting sessions, and gorgeous City of Lights, I only have a few moments, but I wanted to make a quick (and exciting) announcement. The Google Summer of Code officially wrapped up last week, and the Drupal students and mentors did an amazing job this year. “How amazing?," you ask. Well, not only did all 18 of the students that worked directly with Drupal mentors successfully complete their projects, but we got an extra bonus successful student.

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Alex UA's picture

SoC Update for Mentors and Students

Mentors and students, there are only a few short days before the applications get locked down, and there are some important items you need to know about.

Mentors
- The Drupal Summer of Code Mentors group is closing down, at least as a private group, due to the phasing out of private groups here on groups.drupal.org. There have been a lot of questions about scoring and applications in general, and these should now be brought to our private Drupal Summer of Code Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/drupal-soc .
- If you plan on mentoring, either as a primary or secondary mentor, you should post a public comment in the official application on the Summer of Code site. If you haven't signed up on the SoC site, please do so now! http://socghop.appspot.com/org/list_proposals/google/gsoc2009/drupal
- Please use the new Google Group to ask any questions you have about the program, if possible, though you can always feel free to contact me directly.
- Please be aware that on the official site notifications are not automatically sent to you, even if you're the mentor on a project. Please click the buttons at the top of each proposal where you'd like to get notified about updates.
- If you've given a negative score to students based off of missing data, please subscribe to the notifications for that proposal so you'll know if students address your concerns.

Students
- You must have a mentor officially assigned to your project by April 15th, so you should be doing everything you can to find a mentor if you don't have one already. Please be aware that this is a hard date and we have no power to push it back. If you're having a problem finding a mentor, please leave a comment here and/or try to find myself, chx, dmitrig01, or any other SoC mentor/admin/helper in the #drupal irc room.
- Please be aware that on the official site notifications are not automatically sent to you, even if you're the creator of a project idea. Please click the subscribe buttons at the top of your proposal to receive updates.

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jtsnow's picture

Summer of Code Project: Drupal Analytics

I just wanted to draw your attention to a proposal for a Drupal Analytics project for Summer of Code 2009: http://groups.drupal.org/node/20452

We are gathering ideas, so come share your thoughts!

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