Not much. See the GSoC wiki page.

I guess Rewrite X using classes wouldn't make a very attractive project. But since we're dropping PHP 4 support anyway, this is something that we should require for new code.

Can you expand on what you mean by core plugins?

Again, HTML / theming work is not possible under GSoC (maybe if you'd tack it on to some real coding project).

"What's Related" in its current form is an embarrassment. So if anyone has a clever idea how to make that more useful, I could see a project coming out of that. Throw in providing links to previous/next article, popular articles, and maybe the idea to improve the What's New block (from your other comment) and this could make an interesting project.

I'm not too familiar with OAuth, but we have that OpenID 2.0 library from a previous GSoC project which was specified to allow running your Geeklog site as an OpenID provider. I guess combining that with the OAuth provider support could make a GSoC project.

We already support AtomPub (which was a GSoC project, btw).

Thanks for the ideas. Keep them coming!

Here are some things I would like to see:

• A follow-up project to the Test Framework project. We currently have some unit tests in place, but they only cover some of the code from the system directory. We really need tests for the rest, especially lib-common.php, and a way to test plugins.
• "Do something" with semantic information (see: Report from the IKS Workshop in Amsterdam). We could possibly link this with the idea of integrating the Aloha editor, since Aloha is part of the IKS "semantic editor" initiative.

Keep in mind that the comment functions are configurable. We're a bit more restrictive here on geeklog.net due to the huge amount of spam we get. If you want, you can let any anonymous visitors post comments directly (either with or without approval by a moderator).

Your other points are valid and well-known. Keep in mind that we're a small community, so our time and resources are somewhat limited. Which makes it even more important for us to participate in a program like the Google Summer of Code.

For context, the relevant issues from our bugtracker would be:

• Comment Field like Wordpress
• Comments Form on same page as story

Please don't tell me it's the chess game that you have been talking about on the Google Summer of Code Discuss list ...

If so, then please consider: How would a game make sense in the context of a CMS? Also, I seem to remember that your game was to be written in Java. Did you check which language Geeklog is written in?

I don't mean to sound harsh, but you should really do some basic research before going to any random organization and proposing something that really doesn't fit in with their project. Especially after people have been giving you specific directions on the mailing list.

You should be able to use images in the Calendar via autotags if you install the Media Gallery (or maybe the Flickr) plugin.

See demo slide show with jquery on a geeklog site and code below:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.jquerytools.org/1.2.5/full/jquery.tools.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready(function() {
        jQuery("#corab_gallery").scrollable({
            hoverClass:'hover', circular:true, mousewheel:true
        }).navigator().autoscroll({
                steps: 1,interval: 8000
        });
    });	
</script>

<!-- root element for scrollable -->
<div class="scrollable" id="corab_gallery">	
	
	<!-- root element for the items -->
	<div class="items">
		<div id="img_slide">
                    <div>
                    <img src="http://corab.org/documents_corab/mediaobjects/orig/e/e_paysage.jpg">
                    <div class="slide_caption">[staticpage_content:corab1]</div>
                    </div>
                </div>
		<div id="img_slide">
                    <div>
                    <img src="http://corab.org/documents_corab/mediaobjects/orig/7/7_grains.jpg">
                    <div class="slide_caption">[staticpage_content:corab2]</div>
                    </div>
               </div>
		<div id="img_slide">
                    <div>
                    <img src="http://corab.org/documents_corab/mediaobjects/orig/5/5_silo1.jpg">
                    <div class="slide_caption">[staticpage_content:corab3]</div>
                    </div>
               </div>
		<div id="img_slide">
                    <div>
                    <img src="http://corab.org/documents_corab/mediaobjects/orig/d/d_silo2.jpg">
                    <div class="slide_caption">[staticpage_content:corab4]</div>
                    </div>
               </div>
		<div id="img_slide">
                    <div>
                    <img src="http://corab.org/documents_corab/mediaobjects/orig/a/a_sacs.jpg">
                    <div class="slide_caption">[staticpage_content:corab5]</div>
                    </div>
               </div>
	</div>
</div>	

<div style="clear:both;"></div>
<div class="navi"></div>

In the slide show there is no link to articles because this is just a pictures slide show.

The theme was made by me with the purepro online thememaker (coming soon). I don't know if the owner want to share it, I will ask and if he want I will add it to the thememaker.

The documents area is made with mediagallery (WKZ).

I'm curious about the technical side, i.e. how you would implement this. Geeklog already has a very simple URL rewriting feature (it's not really rewriting in the mod_rewrite sense). URLs of the form you're suggesting would require using mod_rewrite and a .htacess - but that won't work on other webservers (e.g. IIS) and not all hosting services let you use this.

So this is the reason that some of our URLs aren't the nicest, but the imporant ones, e.g. for articles can use our limited "rewriting" and seem to be picked up by search engines just fine.