Geeklog - Summer of Code Students announced

Summer of Code Students announced

Monday, April 21 2008 @ 03:50 PM EDT
Contributed by: Dirk
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Google have now published the list of accepted students for this year's Summer of Code. For Geeklog, the following projects made the cut:

For Geeklog 1.x:

Jared Wenerd will be working on improving the comments handling, mentored by Michael Jervis
Sami Mazen Barakat will be working on improving the search functionality, mentored by Randy Kolenko
Matt West returns to further work on the install script and improve the plugin installation process, mentored by Dirk Haun
Aman Parnami will be working on a Mailman plugin, mentored by Blaine Lang (with some help from the Mailman project)

For Geeklog 2:

Dhairya Dnyanpal Dand will be working on a generalized mapping plugin, mentored by Justin Carlson
William P Bushey will be working on social networking features, mentored by Michael Tutty

Congratulations to Aman, Dhairya, Jared, Matt, Sami, and William and we're looking forward to working with you during the summer.

Thanks to everyone who submitted an application and our apologies to those that weren't selected. If you have any questions regarding your application, feel free to contact us at the usual address.

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Me and My Project

Authored by: nsaaman on Monday, April 21 2008 @ 04:56 PM EDT

Hi All, I am Aman Parnami, studying at Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Bombay, India. In 3 months time I'll be a proud Master's Degree holder
in Computer Sc.

I thank Dirk and Blaine for continuous encouragement and support which led to an accepted proposal.

I have been selected for developing Mailman Plugin for Geeklog. Starting with getting a wrapper to REST Interface of Mailman Project,
I aim to complete the user interface to facilitate Mailing List subscriptions/unsubscriptions, moderation and administration of lists.

Congratulations to all the accepted students. That's it for now. Will keep everyone updated.

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Authored by: Dhairya on Monday, April 21 2008 @ 10:38 PM EDT

Hi, I am Dhairya studying in my second year of undergraduate in computer science.

Thanks Dirk,Justin,Tony and the entire Geeklog Team, won't have been here without your able guidance.

I am going to work on a generalised mapping plugin API for Geeklog 2.x which would facilitate hassle free embedding of Google/Yahoo/Live etc Maps with lots of advanced features and customizations! Also I iwll be working on integration of various APIs (Picasa,Flickr,Google Calendar etc)

All suggestions are welcome !!!
Looking for a great summer ahead !!!

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Authored by: furiousdog on Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 07:18 AM EDT

Hello all,
I'm Sami. I live in the UK where I study BSc Computer System Engineering. This is my final year so I'm graduating in July.

This summer I will be working to improve the functionality and speed of the search pages. I will also add a search cloud to the mix. So if anyone from the community has anything in particular they would like to see here feel free to send me a message.

I would also like to thank Dirk and the other mentors for helping me through the application process and will be looking forward to working with them this summer.

Also well done to the other students!

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Authored by: LWC on Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 07:49 AM EDT

Did you mean send as in reply? If so, I'd like to ask you not to fall for the two biggest problems in search clouds:

1) Allow phrases and not just single words. If you use spaces to separate words, just allow quotes (e.g. "foo bar" standalone-word). If you use commas, then by default you should treat anything between commas as a phrase (this is a phrase, standalone-word).

2) Advise using similar keywords before accepting new ones. You know, like IMDb does. Even if you make your suggestions in a simple level as in IMDb (you probably won't suggest using "dog" if someone adds "canine"), just keep in mind it's better than nothing.

Not applying 1) + 2) would make the search cloud rather meaningless (although so I wouldn't contradict myself, I guess it would still be better than nothing :-).

Thanks and I hope you will all eventually like Geeklog enough to keep developing it even after the summer.

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Authored by: furiousdog on Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 08:17 AM EDT

Thanks for the advice LWC. I have already got a few ideas on how to implement the search cloud, such as adding filter lists to stop spam and unwanted parses. I will post up a more detailed explanation on how I plan to implement the improvements in the future and I will take your points into consideration.

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Authored by: Dirk on Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 09:28 AM EDT

Of course the cloud is only a nice by-product of the planned search improvements. So maybe we should let Sami get to work on the actual search first ;-)

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Authored by: jmucchiello on Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 08:54 PM EDT

Is there a design doc for these planned improvements? Improved how?

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Authored by: wenerd87 on Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 10:13 AM EDT

Greetings!

I am Jared, a second year undergrad student studying Information Science and Technology at Penn State University. I will be working on the comment system. I am thrilled to be selected. Thank you for all your help with the application process.

I am looking forward to learning a great deal this summer!

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Authored by: LWC on Tuesday, April 22 2008 @ 11:27 AM EDT

Welcome aboard, and please don't miss out that the SOC' wiki article about improving comments has an active talk page too.

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