Student Idea

Proposal is currently available on the GSoC website:
http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/jkitchi...

Abstract

It is often the case where at first it may seem most fitting to design a content type through CCK, and then customize the way nodes of that type are displayed throughout the site. But there are instances when needs grow too complex and a custom module is needed. This process can be automated in order to encourage a natural workflow in growing from a simple site to a more complex one.

About me:

Name: Ayesha Yaqoob
Education: Bachelors in Bioinformatics (Ongoing)
Experience with Drupal: Working on drupal since past 2months
Programming Interests: JAVA, C++, PHP, HTML and LaTeX and Interested in Drupal
E-mail: ayesha_leo9@hotmail.com

Overview:

Development of a Drupal Module for the Extraction of a specific type of information from a database

Overview: An automatic invitation module is very important for websites looking to expand their user base. This project will help develop the right interface to achieve such a goal.

Description: To develop a powerful front end and back end panel comprising of the following main features :

1. The users can import their entire address books from famous mail providers like GMail, Yahoo, AOL, etc. forming the initial part of the module.

2. They can invite their friends to the website by sending them a custom or a user generated message.

Overview: To develop a module which will help us to give different links access on Uniprot database directly.
Uniprot (Universal Protein Resource) provides data about the proteins of organisms.

Description: Here I will start with an example.
I search the uniprot database for particular proteins.Now I want to align those protein sequences to predict their structure and function.For this purpose i have to visit site having the tool clustalW which will align the sequences.

Overview: Adding outbound methods of communication to Drupal. The services module exists to allow other services to communicate with Drupal but there is no easy way for Drupal to tell other services information about its own content.

Description: There are a number of services which would be beneficial for Drupal to implement. I think that building them as a set of actions would probably be best, as actions already provides a simple event mechanism for when things should be pushed out.

Update: this is my official proposal for http://groups.drupal.org/node/19441, the official proposal is at http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/mikey_p...

Abstract: Many tools exist for automatically provisioning new, autonomous Drupal sites, but are often complex to set up, configure and maintain. This module is a simple solution for creating new sites using Drupal’s multisite functionality within an existing site.

Overview: A Drupal module for musicians to collaboratively compose music online. Features include an interface for scoring music, sequencing audio samples, mixing tracks, and playback, all in the browser. Also features wiki-like version control and control over which users may create, access and edit individual projects.

Taxonomy as implemented by Drupal is already an abstraction. However it can benefit from toolkits that add pre-existing taxonomy structures to it according to a user's requirements.

This core is intended to work in conjunction with taxonomy but concerns it's self with taxonomy structure instead of taxonomy function. Although it is not the purpose of this project to develop structures so much as allow the user to, instances of difference in structure are useful to express as examples:

Module creator

Overview

Most simple (10-15 lines) modules use “components” (piece of code). At the implementation level, a component is a class, with input, and based on that it's output. In connecting” components we can create the business logic of a module. This module will only handle basic tasks, but it will be a great help for all the little glue modules that most projects need, that basically implement a hook, call 3-4 functions, and based on that return data.

The original proposal can be found here: http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/joshuar...

Overview: DIDS provides a system to allow Drupal to detect attacks such as SQL injection, spamming and DOS attacks. It should then provide a way to respond to detected attacks. Such methods would include banning users / ips, limiting page requests or by alerting an administrator.