Archived:Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas

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.

This list will be updated on a regular base, feel free to drop any other idea into into the Google Summer of Code 2008 Forum Area or use the Google Summer of Code mail list (don't forget to register to the forum and list before you can 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.

Multi-site implemententation

Ability to use one install base for multiple sites.]]

Image Manager improvements

Thumbnails and image resizing, watermarking, caching, batch uploading, flood protection, enhanced security checking on file contents, per user galleries

Searching Improvements

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

Create environment where articles can be translated and stored using same menu structure, configured SEF URLs to have translated PLUGs and language in URL

SEF URL Plugins

Various options like category/article-name.html, blog/CCYY-MM-DD/Article, etc.

MultiDB support

Create database abstraction layer and support for MySQL and PostGres

Forms

Create component that makes it easy for end users to create forms, consider Ajax support

Export and Import Tools

Create tools that make it easier for end users to migrate content into and out of Joomla!

Comments

Threaded and not threaded, support for various content-types, not just articles

Tags

Tagging for various content-types

TinyMCE

Create a plugin for TinyMCE that makes it easy for end users to choose which add-ons they want without hacking the core

Mootools

Create an PHP API for using mootools.

Error Page Handling

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

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.

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

Semantic Web: Triplify

This project implements Triplify with a Joomla! v 1.5 database to extract publicly available content as RDF/N3 output, given existing vocabularies.

Interested Mentor(s)

Amy Stephen

Description

Plan sample data for Joomla! that can be used to demonstrate a basic social networking environment in Joomla! that draws from:

• foaf data
• SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) data
• Use Kevin Devine's User meta to create additional User data elements needed.
• Add data elements and user maintenance processes that provide for privacy questions and responses in order to ensure end user is willing to share information.

Integrate Triplify into this environment mapping data base data elements to existing vocabularies and exposing publicly available, given end user privacy responses.

Make solution available as an extension on the Joomla! Extensions Directory, along with adequate user documentation and a case study that demonstrates the capability now available.

Resources

• foaf
• SIOC
• User meta
• Triplify
• Triplify Documentation

Semantic Web: Triplify

This project implements Triplify with a Joomla! v 1.5 database to extract publicly available content as RDF/N3 output, given existing vocabularies.

Interested Mentor(s)

Amy Stephen

Description

Plan sample data for Joomla! that can be used to demonstrate a basic social networking environment in Joomla! that draws from:

• foaf data
• SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) data
• Use Kevin Devine's User meta to create additional User data elements needed.
• Add data elements and user maintenance processes that provide for privacy questions and responses in order to ensure end user is willing to share information.

Integrate Triplify into this environment mapping data base data elements to existing vocabularies and exposing publicly available, given end user privacy responses.

Make solution available as an extension on the Joomla! Extensions Directory, along with adequate user documentation and a case study that demonstrates the capability now available.

Resources

• foaf
• SIOC
• User meta
• Triplify
• Triplify Documentation

Semantic Web: Linked Data

Using Joomla!'s template overrides, create a set of layout files that can be used in any template to offer appropriate RDF output. 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

Resources

• RDF Primer
• How to Publish Linked Data on the Web

Native Joomla! 1.5 Forum

Create a very simple Forum that is easily extendable, uses the Joomla! 1.5 API and maybe the new features in Joomla! 1.6. Concept should make use of plugins and modules where possible.