Google Summer of Code

Last week was spent still working on UI enhancements and trying to tackle the problem how how to get AJAX to gracefully work if javascript isn't enabled. Later in the week I ended up attending barcamp. At barcamp I met the authors of the first jQuery book, they also gave a presentation on jQuery and answered some questions I had about it for me. I also found out that one of the authors is really involved with the Drupal community, Jon Chaffer. He is known as JonBob in the drupal community.

Last weekend I spent more time on the design document, I also spent time playing with many various modules to see about integration with the extend case tracker module. I have been working on a mock design and how things will function and integrate. I also started looking at all the existing case tracker module code to see how things are interacting with other modules and what type of functionality exist there. I had a discussion with yoroy and with Dave Notik (sponsor of the case tracker module) about usability and design.

I put in my application for the Summer of Code last week with the following proposal

Proposal V1[PDF]

I based the goals of it off of the proposed idea at http://drupal.org/node/121112. After receiving some feedback on my application I revised my time line without much change in the actual proposal. The new proposal is at

Proposal V2[PDF]

In the downtime between comment posts on my application I contacted the current module owner and started to become more involved in the community, a few forum posts and more research on my project. With the second round of comments down and an extremely revamped proposal I am looking forward to more comments and assistance from the community. Well here is the third proposal and the abstract.

Proposal V3[PDF]