Google announces Summer of Code results; Drupal gets TWENTY slots!

Well done. This will keep everyone busy for the summer :)

It's a very good mix and I will be watching some of them very closely.

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I'll be following a couple of these projects with interest.
This sort of support (and of course sponsorship) should really help to get more folk involved and enthusiastic about Drupal development. Congratulations to all successful applicants!

.dan.
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Another student and myself have been accepted for SoC 2007 to work for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab to develop integration modules between Drupal and the Google Apps API. Even outside of Drupal, there are SoC projects using Drupal. It just goes to show how Drupal can't be beat!

The list looks exciting... two new core themes would be killer, and I'd be interested in what sort of rating system gets cooked up for projects. Just a quick plug for simplicity... make it easy to use and very easy to read at a glance. I'd love to use the eBay work as a foundation for the Ubercart eBay integration, too... hope that goes well. : )

Did anyone else take the time to translate the binary on the Google SoC logo? Just another clever design by the folks at Google.

That's great news! Good work, guys and girls! :)

Students can find me in the patch queue -- I'd be happy to review their SoC patches for core.

Thanks you, Google.

20 slots.... that's awesome!

And although I have stepped back from SoC and from my proposals, I see that 2 of my proposals got in! Woohoo! Great!

VokinLoksar and bradfordcp: just let me know when you need testers, I'll be there ;)

Yeah that's good news and congrats to all those who are involved in this.

It'll definitely be a busy summer I guess.

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Great news,
This is a really big thing. I hope next version will include all these new features.
By the way when the next version will be released.
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This is great news!

Looking forward to see how these projects develop over the summer.

Cheers,

Bill

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Robert and Angie awesome work on this - that goes for all the mentors. The vetting of these projects was really exciting to watch. I can't wait to see what comes out of this!

Great list of proyects. Good luck for the students and mentors.
Thanks Google for the support =}

Yay... on "Designing a new core theme for Drupal"
Taken from http://code.google.com/soc/drupal/appinfo.html?csaid=F6393FE5D49ECBB7

The goal of this project is to build an aesthetically pleasing core theme for Drupal.

Despite the numerous elegant sites that have been created and beautiful themes developed, Drupal is perceived by many to be lagging behind other CMSs when it comes to 'look and feel'. One of the main strengths of Drupal could itself be the reason for this problem: flexibility. A generic theme will have to incorporate each aspect of Drupal whereas a typical site would only need 20% - 30% percent of these features. Also, designing without knowing the target audience, content and marketing goals is a difficult task, and the results may not be applicable to many situations.

A good core theme would have to address the needs of applicability, customizability and flexibility to ensure easy adoption by the users. It will have to be usable, standards compliant, and accessible. Garland is a good example of how these goals could be achieved, and how effort put in to design could really pay off. It would be wonderful for both Drupal and Drupal users if there were more options to choose from, without compromising on the features. That's where a new core theme would be very useful.

The project to create a new theme would be done in four phases:

1. Initial Research: I will need to educate myself better on the Drupal project itself, the processes, the designers and their views, as well as the requirements of a core theme.

2. Visual Design: Based on my initial understanding of the requirements, I will create the first mockup of the design. This would be improved through an iterative process where I would work closely with the mentor and the relevant experts and community members. As a relative newcomer to Drupal, I would need the guidance and assistance of Drupal designers to ensure the design meets the needs of the community.

3. HTML Template: The finalized mockup would be converted to an HTML template. I would use valid, semantically correct XHTML markup, and valid CSS. Drupal has good accessibility features out-of-the-box[1], so I will make sure we improve on them.

4. PHPTemplate theme: In the final phase of the project, I will work on converting the HTML template in to a fully-fledged Drupal theme. As in earlier phases, I would rely on the assistance of my mentor and other Drupal experts to make sure the project has a successful result.

Marcel
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man, i'm in very good company. with all the other exciting projects it's going to be hard to keep from looking over everyone's shoulders and mind my own business. congratulations to all the other participants.

Hi I am Gartheeban Ganeshapillai, and my drupal link is missing in the list. [edit -- I fixed it -- chx]
My User ID is : 125748

thanks for selecting my proposal for GSoC

That is great! Congratulations everybody.

I'm delighted to hear we have so many exciting projects being worked on by so many bright and eager minds!

Thanks to Google for their ongoing support, to the folks participating in the Google SoC, to Robert Douglass for helping put this all together, and of course to the many mentors who always so helpfully step up to the plate to lend a hand and help out.

Keep up the great work!

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Go Drupal, go drupal !Congratulations Drupal

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The only problem with seeing so many good ideas being tackled as Summer Of Code Projects is that now I actually have a reason for wanting summer to end just so I can see the results.

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Congratulations! Can't wait to see the results.

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I just wanted to shout a "big up" for Drupal wich every day makes me feel that it is the right choice for now and the future of web developement!

Congratulations! I wondering why I love so much Google ;) ?

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To all the guys and gals that got their projects accepted in the SoC,
May they all become very important modules - and one day part of core.

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Holy cow, congrats! Looking through the list of projects we are indeed lucky to have gotten 20 slots. Most others seem to have maybe half dozen.

Best of luck!
Jason

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wow, it sounds great! Really usefull and interesting projects. I'm looking with pleasure on how Drupal is developing all the time, and trying to keep abreast of it ;)

best of luck!

Looking forward to new devs... More power to drupal!

jerome esperanza
manila, philippines