GSoC 2011

Summary: A user-friendly conversation-based Drupal customization wizard.

Description: I was inspired by the character creation process in the Ultima games wherein it asks you a series of questions and generates your character sheet based on your responses (with the opportunity to tweak the numbers afterward). It might also be addressing the usability issues @Itangalo is hoping to resolve with a module “app store”. I want to create a system that takes the user through a series of simple questions and then generates a single download of a preconfigured Drupal installation.

Overview:
Develop a highly configurable, pluggable, A/B testing framework

Description:

For an upcoming project I will be starting within the next couple of months there is a requirement for some A/B testing. Specifically for this project it is just A/B testing of two versions of content displayed in a block. This requirement, however, has started the gears in my head spinning and I think this might be a great opportunity for this year's Google Summer of Code.

The idea, as it currently exists in my mind:

Testable Elements:

Drupal core has some support for parsing and generating Gettext Portable Object (.po) files. This functionality was improved with Drupal 7 to support text context, that was part of the spec but not implemented in Drupal before. However, the actual code that is used to process and generate Gettext files is so baked in, there is no practical way to reuse them at all.

Localize.drupal.org is a great site providing a web interface for community translation. Due to technical and scalability reasons the site uses custom code to provide translation of 7000 modules and about 20000 releases of these modules. Each release is parsed and ends up in the database of the site which results in almost 270000 strings to translate. That's a lot of stuff! Now add up that we have almost 100 languages and each string can have any number of suggestions for any language.

The Aegir project is entering a new development cycle with the upcoming release of the stable 1.0 branch. We are therefore looking for contributors to improve the project in many ways. We specifically need help to port the frontend to Drupal 7, write a zonefile editor (which may require resurrecting it from a dead git branch or writing it from scratch), and a bunch of other things.

Overview - This project will focus on integrating node.js and DrupalChat modules functionality to Chatroom module. This project is planned for Drupal 7.

Description - This project will further enhance the Chatroom module and add the following features to it.

• Add support for different transport backends to chatroom module.
• Integrate current chatroom functionality with node.js.
• Integrate Drupalchat module functionality into chatroom module.

Overview – Extend functionalities of and add new features to Media module.

Description - This project will contribute to the on going development of Media (http://drupal.org/project/media) module and extend its functionalities further. The main goal will be to provide integration with WYSIWYG editor.
I will work on following features -

• Embedding of all media types with a fallback: http://drupal.org/node/1016376 (related to http://drupal.org/node/832372)
• Automation of configuration steps for WYSIWYG Integration (http://drupal.org/node/692838)
• Provide a common 'copy embed code' button http://drupal.org/node/1048698
• Floating images left and right: http://drupal.org/node/1043570
• Write tests for WYSIWYG integration (http://drupal.org/node/1026532)

I also plan to enhance the image functionality further by providing following features (if time permits)-

• Provide options to set image title, alternate title, description, caption, hyperlink, alignment, size, etc.
• Provide option to edit the image with the following features -
• Crop
• Rotate
• Flip horizontally and vertically
• Common filters such as brightness and contrast control.

This project is for Drupal 7.

Hi

I want to integrate node.js or ajax push engine to Drupalchat and port it to Drupal 7 as part of GSoC 2011. I want to know the views of the Drupal community on this. Will it be helpful? If yes, then I will prepare a detailed outline and post it here. Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Overview

The project aims at extending the DrupalGapps (Google Apps Framework for Drupal) module by:

1. Improving and adding more features to existing DrupalGapps API.
2. Developing wrappers and applications (as modules) for Google's service-specific APIs by using the DrupalGapps API.

State of DrupalGapps Framework (module)

DrupalGapps Framework is a project that aims at seamlessly integrating Google Apps with Drupal.