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Google Summer of Code 2008 project ideas
Summer of Code season is back and that means its time for us to suggest to Google some of the key areas of SilverStripe we would like improved and that equally provide stimulation and reward for students to work on.
If we're selected by Google to participate, then between March 24 and 31st, University students can apply to Google to work on one of the programming challenges below, receiving USD4500 and some swag for the effort.
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Google Summer of Code 2008
Over the past three years, Google has spent millions of dollars to pay over 1500 talented individuals to work on open source software projects through their Summer of Code program. Google has now officially announced they're repeating it this year, offering a comprehensive overview.
If you'd been following our blog posts last year you will know how much of a success the Summer of Code was for SilverStripe; from usability work, through to OpenID support, online image editing and multiple-language capabilities, a lot of what you take for granted in SilverStripe was produced last year by our dedicated Google coders.
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SilverStripe 2.2 released! Redesigned interface and double the features...
We're about to lift the world's expectations about building and managing websites even further. SilverStripe 2.2.0 is a major release containing a staggering quantity of new features and work from our ten Google Summer of Code students and an equally impressive effort from the core team.
- Download silverstripe-2.2.0.tar.gz (2MB) - Upgrade guide
- Try it out at demo.silverstripe.com
- Review our detailed Changelog
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Google Summer of Code 2007 Mentor Summit
The chief reason I was in San Francisco earlier in the month was to attend the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. Not only has Google paid for ten stellar programmers to work on the SilverStripe project this year, they paid for my for flights and accomodation from New Zealand! We couldn't be more thankful!
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Google Summer of Code update on multiple database support
Philipp Kreen, one of our Google Summer of Coders, is still working on his project: a great example of how Google has given us open source volunteers from all over the world who are contributing to make SilverStripe better!
Philipp's project was one of the most awkward to complete: improving the core such that it could run on more than just the fast but simple MySQL database, and extend to the Postgres and Microsoft SQL server, through the use of PHP5 data-objects (PDO).
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Interview with Dion Almaer of Google & Ajaxian
On Friday, I was invited to speak with Dion Almaer about the SilverStripe project, our decision around PHP5, and how we ensured success with our participation in the the Google Summer of Code program which provided us with ten fulltime programmers to work on our project. The fifteen minute interview is on youtube.
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Google Summer of Code Statistics
Ohloh has produced statistics for the ten Google-funded programmers who have worked with us over the past few months to produce fantastic new features, some of which are already in the current download, and most of which will be released in the upcoming 2.2 release.
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Google Summer of Code Update: Image editing glory!
Check this out! The image editor and upload improvements have come a huge way since we last showed Mateusz's work back in July. The code is currently publicly available for download via Subversion and will be released in SilverStripe 2.2.
Beautiful, powerful image editor
Will collaborated with Mateusz to provide a slick design to the image editor, which allows image rotation, cropping, resizing, and undoing your actions... (all using HTML, CSS, AJAX, PHP5; not Flash)
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2 weeks to America
Thanks Google! Two weeks from today I'll be going back 19 hours in time, having been invited back to San Francisco for the Google Summer of Code mentor summit. This is all so we can discuss how to improve the extremely generous and very fruitful open source program that Google let us participate in this year. It's awesome to see a strong contingent of fellow New Zealanders coming, including Penny, Geoff and Robert.
It's less than two months since my last visit to Google, where I did an hour long tech-talk (video) and had an awe-inspiring tour of the Google campus, so I look forward to meeting up with the same great people (and the free food!)
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Google code on its way!
With the release process of SilverStripe 2.1 now underway, a really exciting development has begun over in Germany. One of our core developers, Ingo, has started on the SIlverStripe 2.2 release, which will include the hundreds of new features by our ten Google superstars: Bernat Foj Capell, Elijah Lofgren, Lakshan Perera, Mateusz Ujma, Markus Lanthaler, Meg Risen, Ofir Picazo, Philipp Krenn, Quin Hoxie, and Will Scott.
As Ingo mentioned, the code being poured in is available via Subversion, and you can see his work in real-time thanks to IRC (Elijah set up a script so that every addition to SilverStripe is automatically messaged into the #silverstripe chat channel).
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How do humans win?
Webstock is here! We've been in heads-down mode for a while, working on sites for councils, Air New Zealand, and American clients too. So now is the time to celebrate the local scene and be proud of Webstock!
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