GSoC is over almost everyone passed and it’s…

GSoC is over, almost everyone passed, and it’s time to see how everyone did. There will be one last round of student IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. chats:

  • Template Versioning, David Julia: August 29, 16:00 UTC
  • Language Packs, Marko Novakovic: August 29, 16:30 UTC
  • Local Storage Drafts backup, Mihai Chereji: August 30, 16:00 UTC
  • Enhanced emails, Wojtek Szutnik: August 30, 16:30 UTC
  • Extending WP Webservices, Prasath Nadarajah: August 30, 17:00 UTC
  • Threaded comments, Lukasz Koprowski: August 30, 17:30 UTC
  • WordPress Move, Mert Yazicioglu: Sept 1, 16:00 UTC
  • File Uploader Upgrade, Jacob Gillespie: Sept 1, 16:30 UTC
  • Document RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision., Ben Balter: Sept 2, 16:00 UTC
  • learn.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, Stas Suscov, Sept 2, 16:30 UTC
  • Refresh Android app UIUI User interface, Anirudh S: Sept 5, 17:00 UTC

You can read all about them in advance if you haven’t been following along at http://gsoc2011.wordpress.com/

Chat room in on irc.freenode.net #wordpress-gsoc

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GSoC project review chats

Project review IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. chats with the community start tomorrow. These will be in #wordpress-gsoc on irc.freenode.net.

Thursday July 21, 15:00 UTC:
Refresh Android app UIUI User interface, Anirudh S. (primary mentor @danroundhill)
Extending WP Webservices, Prasath Nadarajah (primary mentor @wanagi)

Thursday July 21, 16:00 UTC:
Enhanced emails, Wojtek Szutnik (primary mentor @aarondcampbell)
learn.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, Stas Suscov (primary mentor @johnjamesjacoby)

Thursday July 21, 17:00 UTC:
Document RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision., Ben Balter (primary mentor @mitchoyoshitaka)
Local Storage Drafts backup, Mihai Chereji (primary mentor @filosofo)

Friday, July 22, 16:00 UTC:
Template Versioning, David Julia (primary mentor @ocean90)
File uploader Upgrade, Jacob Gillespie (primary mentor @dkoopersmith)

Friday, July 22, 17:00 UTC:
Language Packs, Marko Novakovic (primary mentor @nacin)
WordPress Move, Mert Yazicioglu (primary mentor @developersmind)

Monday, July 25, 16:00 UTC:
Threaded comments, Lukasz Koprowski (primary mentor @westi)

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The GSoC students have posted instructions on how…

The GSoC students have posted instructions on how to access their projects to try them out, as they are all in working condition. Please check them them out — many are in pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party form so it’s easy to try them. We have projects for File Uploader, Language Packs, Document RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision., Local Storage drafts backup, Courseware/learn.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/, Enhanced emails, Threaded Comments, Extending WP Webservices, Refresh Android app UIUI User interface, WordPress Move, and Template Versioning.

After you’ve tried any of the projects, feedback would be great! Let us know what you thought of them in the comments, and if you have specific technical questions/suggestions, use the student blog. Review/feedback chats will be scheduled for next week.

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3.2 will be launching this week I know…

3.2 will be launching this week. I know everyone will be itching to start talking about features for 3.3, but I’d like to put a moratorium on that for a week or two so that we can spend some dedicated time looking at the GSoC projects.

We have a history of getting great students, being excited about their projects, then not paying much attention once they’re underway. We need to change this. These students are potentially the next generation of WordPress leaders, and we should be paying close attention to their work (and thinking about how we can use it).

As it happens, next week is midterm for the GSoC students, which is perfect timing for a review, since all students are meant to have their projects coded and ready for testing by this point. After 3.2 is released, I’d like all the leads and committers (and any other interested contributors) to look over each project and provide feedback to the student/mentor groups. We could do this on our student blogblog (versus network, site), in IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. chats, or a combination.

Does anyone have a problem with postponing 3.3 talks for a week so we can make sure our GSoC kids are on the right track?

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Sorry for the short notice a few GSOC…

Sorry for the short notice: a few GSOC info chats for student projects got re-scheduled for today (schedule posted over on the WP/GSoC blog night before last). If anyone is around, it would be great to show the students some support and ask them questions about their projects in #wordpress-gsoc on irc.freenode.net.

IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. chats for @dajulia3, @suscov, and @anirudh24seven are scheduled as follows for this Friday, July 1:
Anirudh: 18:30 UTC
David: 19:00 UTC
Stas: 19:30 UTC

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GSoC Student Chat Today In half an hour…

GSoC Student Chat Today! In half an hour (17:00 UTC) in #wordpress-gsoc, hear about, ask questions regarding, and get to know the developers of these student projects:

  • Ben Balter (Document RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision.), whose mentors are Mitcho, duck_, Jorbin
  • Prasath Nadarajah (Extending WP Webservices), whose mentors are Thorsten and Eric Mann

Note: Stas Suscov (learn.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/) is being rescheduled for next week along with the students who missed their chats this week.

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Hello folks The GSoC students have ironed out…

Hello folks. The GSoC students have ironed out scope and schedule for their projects, and are ready to tell you about them and answer questions and/or hear suggestions. The links below have the project descriptions and schedules. Each student will hold a Q&A in IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. according to the schedule below. Please come and show our GSoC students some support!

irc.freenode.net #wordpress-gsoc

Tuesday 17:00 UTC:
Anirudh S. (Refresh Android UI) – Dan Roundhill, Isaac
Mert Yazicioglu (WordPress Move) – Pete Mall, Brian Layman
Wojtek Szutnik (Enhanced Emails) – Aaron Campbell, Justin

Wednesday 14:00 UTC:
David Julia (Template Versioning) – Ocean90, Nacin, Koop
Jakub Tyrcha (Full-throttle Trac Annihilation) – Dion, duck_, scribu, Nacin
Marko Novakovic (Language Packs) – Nacin, Nikolay

Thursday 17:00 UTC:
Jacob Gillespie (File Uploader Upgrade) – Koop, azaozz
Lukasz Koprowski (Threaded Comments) – Westi, Koop
Mihai Chereji (Local Storage Drafts Backup) – Filosofo, mitcho, azaozz and Koop

Friday 17:00 UTC:
Ben Balter (Document Revisions) – Mitcho, duck_, Jorbin
Prasath Nadarajah (Extending WP Webservices) – Thorsten, Eric Mann
Stas Suscov (learn.wordpress.org) – Jtrip, Jeremy Boggs

Oh, and re suggestions: Please be respectful of students and mentors and try not to assume that they don’t know what they’re doing. Sometimes it’s easy to get carried away — out of the best intentions — when giving advice, so once a suggestion has been heard, leave it to the students and mentors to decide if they’ll take the advice or not. Thanks!

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Our student GSoC blog is up and running…

Our student GSoC blog is up and running, for anyone who wants to follow along this summer. http://gsoc2011.wordpress.com/

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2011 GSoC Students Announced

Google has announced the students who were selected to participate in the Google Summer of Code program this year. WordPress is once again a participating organization, and will have 12 students working with us this year. We were awarded the 15 slots we requested, but based on how we distributed the mentors (and how many students applied for the same projects), we donated 3 slots back to the pool so other organizations could use them (no need for us to be greedy, right?). Introducing our 2011 GSoC students/projects:

  • Document RevisionsRevisions The WordPress revisions system stores a record of each saved draft or published update. The revision system allows you to see what changes were made in each revision by dragging a slider (or using the Next/Previous buttons). The display indicates what has changed in each revision. – Ben Balter: Mitcho, duck_, and Jorbin
  • File Uploader Upgrade – Jacob Gillespie: Koop, azaozz
  • Local Storage Drafts backup – Mihai Chereji: Filosofo, mitcho (assist from azaozz and koop)
  • Learn.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ – Stas Suscov: Jeremy Boggs, Jtrip (others in ad hoc manner)
  • Enhanced emails – Wojtek Szutnik: Aaron Campbell and Justin
  • Threaded Comments – azram19: Westi and Koop
  • Extending WP Webservices – Prasath Nadarajah: Thorsten and Eric Mann
  • Language Packs – Marko Novakovic: Nacin and Nikolay
  • Refresh Android app UIUI User interface – Anirudh S: Dan Roundhill and Isaac
  • Full-throttle TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. Annihilation – Jakub Tyrcha: Dion, duck_ and scribu
  • WordPress Move – Mert Yazicioglu: Pete Mall and Brian Layman
  • Template Versioning – David Julia: Ocean90 and Nacin (with possible assist Koop)

We’ll be setting up the group blogblog (versus network, site) for students this week and will announce it here when it’s up and running. All the project descriptions will be available there, along with links to student blogs.

List of all projects accepted into GSoC 2011.

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GSoC mentors who have not posted their selections…

GSoC mentors who have not posted their selections to the mentor blogblog (versus network, site) and need to do so today if they still want to be mentors: @nacin, @dkoopersmith, @dd32, @johnjamesjacoby, Mitcho, Thorsten, @viper007bond, @filosofo, Brian Layman, Chris Jean, ocean90, Russell Fair. If anyone on this list does not know what I’m talking about, they should leave a comment saying as much immediately so I can walk you through it if you missed the original emails. We’ll be doing mentor-student matching tomorrow, so this is it.

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