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This page contains a list of project proposal ideas from the Joomla! project (community members). The mentoring organization has written down a non exhaustive list of project ideas to guide the students into selecting a proper idea.
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This page contains a list of project proposal ideas from the Joomla! Project (community members). The mentoring organization has written down a non-exhaustive list of project ideas to guide the students into selecting a suitable idea.
  
This list will be updated on a regular base, feel free to drop any other idea into into the [http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=525 Google Summer of Code 2008 Forum Area] or use the [http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-summer-of-code-2008 Google Summer of Code mail list] (don't forget to register to the forum and list before you can post).
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This list will be updated on a regular basis. Feel free to post any other ideas into into the [http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=525 Google Summer of Code 2008 Forum Area] or use the [http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-summer-of-code-2008 Google Summer of Code mail list] (don't forget to register in the forum and list before you post).
 
   
 
   
We would kindly ask you not to add new projects her unless you are one of the project mentors, please discuss these on the list/forum mentioned above.
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We would kindly ask you not to add new projects here unless you are one of the project mentors. Please discuss these on the list/forum mentioned above.
  
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== Unit Tests ==
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== Components ==
  
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[[Code 01000]] Article Versioning
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[[Code 01010]] Multi-site implementation
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[[Code 01020]] Whiteboard component
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[[Code 01030]] Image Manager improvements
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[[Code 01040]] Create a forms component/extension
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[[Code 01050]] Export and Import Tools
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[[Code 01060]] Searching Improvements
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[[Code 01070]] Tagging for various content-types
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[[Code 01080]] User Registration and Management
  
== Article Versioning ==
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== Libraries/Framework related ==
  
== Whiteboard component ==
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[[Code 02000]] MultiDB support
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[[Code 02010]] Create an PHP API for using mootools.
  
== Multi-site implemententation ==
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== Modules ==
Ability to use one install base for multiple sites.]]
 
  
== Image Manager improvements ==
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[[Code 03000]]
Thumbnails and image resizing, watermarking, caching, batch uploading, flood protection, enhanced security checking on file contents, per user galleries
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[[Code 03010]]
  
== Searching Improvements ==
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== Templates ==
Aadvanced search capabilities including specific content types including third party extensions, section and category, weighted searches, Ajax support, multiple tabbed results sorted differently include most recent, relevance, external API's like Google and Yahoo
 
  
== Multi-lingual support ==
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[[Code 04000]] Deploy Triplify for Joomla! v 1.5, Semantic Web
Create environment where articles can be translated and stored using same menu structure, configured SEF URLs to have translated PLUGs and language in URL
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[[Code 04010]] Semantic Web: Linked Data
  
== SEF URL Plugins ==
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== Unit testing ==
Various options like category/article-name.html, blog/CCYY-MM-DD/Article, etc.
 
  
== MultiDB support ==
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[[Code 05000]] Improve Unit Test Coverage
Create database abstraction layer and support for MySQL and PostGres
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[[Code 05010]] Create Web-Based Unit Test Runner
  
== Forms ==
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== Plugins ==
Create component that makes it easy for end users to create forms, consider Ajax support
 
  
== Export and Import Tools ==
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[[Code 06000]] Comments; threaded and not threaded, support for various content-types, not just articles
Create tools that make it easier for end users to migrate content into and out of Joomla!
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[[Code 06010]] SEF URL Plugins
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[[Code 06020]] Create a plugin for TinyMCE that makes it easy for end users to choose which add-ons they want
  
== Comments ==
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== CiviCRM Projects ==
Threaded and not threaded, support for various content-types, not just articles
 
  
== Tags ==
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[[Code 08001]]  CiviCRM integration: Allow organizational updating from Joomla! front end
Tagging for various content-types
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[[Code 08002]]  CiviCRM integration: Develop a suite of front end extensions for CiviCRM data
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[[Code 08003]]  CiviCRM features: Develop a CiviSync module that can run scheduled data sync operations between external data sources
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[[Code 08004]]  CiviCRM features: Develop a generic CMS integration web service API for CiviCRM and have Joomla! use it
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[[Code 08005]]  CiviCRM features: Modify the import feature in CiviCRM so that it can accept any field from any module in the import
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[[Code 08006]]  CiviCRM look and feel: Give some of Joomla!'s great attention to UI design and layout to CiviCRM
  
== TinyMCE ==
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== Internationalization ==
Create a plugin for TinyMCE that makes it easy for end users to choose which add-ons they want without hacking the core
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[[Code 07000]] Multi-lingual support
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[[Code 09001]] Transliteration of aliases for SEF urls
  
== Mootools ==
 
Create an PHP API for using mootools.
 
  
== Error Page Handling ==
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== Miscellaneous ==
Create a component that will handle standard errors (ex. 404) so that headers are sent for the error code, but the error is trapped and redirected from the error.php file back to Joomla! where it can be handled on a normal webpage.
 
  
== Data Portability ==
 
Implement recommendations for Site Developers for Data Portability http://groups.google.com/group/dataport ... developers including creating an OAuth plugin that can be used with data services http://oauth.net/core/1.0
 
  
== Semantic Web ==
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[[Code 07010]] Error Page Handling
Deploy Triplify for Joomla! v 1.5, mapping to existing vocabularies and exposing publicly available content http://triplify.org/ and also deploy xmlgrddl, http://code.google.com/p/xmlgrddl/ producing RDF from the xHTML content. Compare and contrast methods; evaluate which method is better or if there are situations where one is better than the other. Create extension for use by community with instructions for both.
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[[Code 07020]] Data Portability
 
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[[Code 07030]] Facebook Integration
Semantic Web - Create RDF output for standard Joomla! website using various vocabularies http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/ ; create a set of template overrides that can be used by community to produce the semantic output
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[[Code 07040]] Create an download extension for Joomla!  
 
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[[Code 07050]] Create an extension to register Joomla! tasks/projects
== Facebook Integration ==
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[[Code 07060]] One-click upgrade for Joomla!
 
 
== Open Social Integration ==
 
  
  
 
[[Category:Google Summer of Code 2008]]
 
[[Category:Google Summer of Code 2008]]

Revision as of 23:07, 31 March 2008

This page has been archived. This page contains information for an unsupported Joomla! version or is no longer relevant. It exists only as a historical reference, it will not be improved and its content may be incomplete and/or contain broken links.

This page contains a list of project proposal ideas from the Joomla! Project (community members). The mentoring organization has written down a non-exhaustive list of project ideas to guide the students into selecting a suitable idea.

This list will be updated on a regular basis. Feel free to post any other ideas into into the Google Summer of Code 2008 Forum Area or use the Google Summer of Code mail list (don't forget to register in the forum and list before you post).

We would kindly ask you not to add new projects here unless you are one of the project mentors. Please discuss these on the list/forum mentioned above.

ProjectTemplate

Components[edit]

Code 01000 Article Versioning
Code 01010 Multi-site implementation
Code 01020 Whiteboard component
Code 01030 Image Manager improvements
Code 01040 Create a forms component/extension
Code 01050 Export and Import Tools
Code 01060 Searching Improvements
Code 01070 Tagging for various content-types
Code 01080 User Registration and Management

Libraries/Framework related[edit]

Code 02000 MultiDB support
Code 02010 Create an PHP API for using mootools.

Modules[edit]

Code 03000
Code 03010

Templates[edit]

Code 04000 Deploy Triplify for Joomla! v 1.5, Semantic Web
Code 04010 Semantic Web: Linked Data

Unit testing[edit]

Code 05000 Improve Unit Test Coverage
Code 05010 Create Web-Based Unit Test Runner

Plugins[edit]

Code 06000 Comments; threaded and not threaded, support for various content-types, not just articles
Code 06010 SEF URL Plugins
Code 06020 Create a plugin for TinyMCE that makes it easy for end users to choose which add-ons they want

CiviCRM Projects[edit]

Code 08001  CiviCRM integration: Allow organizational updating from Joomla! front end
Code 08002  CiviCRM integration: Develop a suite of front end extensions for CiviCRM data
Code 08003  CiviCRM features: Develop a CiviSync module that can run scheduled data sync operations between external data sources
Code 08004  CiviCRM features: Develop a generic CMS integration web service API for CiviCRM and have Joomla! use it
Code 08005  CiviCRM features: Modify the import feature in CiviCRM so that it can accept any field from any module in the import
Code 08006  CiviCRM look and feel: Give some of Joomla!'s great attention to UI design and layout to CiviCRM

Internationalization[edit]

Code 07000 Multi-lingual support
Code 09001 Transliteration of aliases for SEF urls


Miscellaneous[edit]

Code 07010 Error Page Handling
Code 07020 Data Portability
Code 07030 Facebook Integration
Code 07040 Create an download extension for Joomla! 
Code 07050 Create an extension to register Joomla! tasks/projects
Code 07060 One-click upgrade for Joomla!