Community Portal Here I am, one year later GSoC 2008, living the open source process again but now from the mentor's perspective. Ultimately, I am not an active blogger partly because I am always busy: my job, my activities in KOKOA community as an open source promotor, J!Research development and GSoC 2009. Not much free time but a lot of motivation. This year, I have the honor of mentoring two interesting projects with a great potential once available for Joomla!. I suspect I should write different blog entries for each project but this time I will ignore my intuition.
Workflow Extension for Joomla! 1.6 is Mostafa's proposal for this GSoC 2009. The idea is to create a simple extensible workflow extension for
Joomla! that will support the core content component with the possibility to support other extensions. I have witnessed the necessity of workflow systems in several scenarios regarding sequential processes in organisational environments like presentation of project proposals, requests for funding or documentation and industrial processes (which are usually sequential by excellence) among others. I am sure this extension will have an important impact in Joomla community, increasing its adoption as a content management solution. It was really impressive to read Mostafa's proposal because of the clearness of his objectives and the level of detail exposed in his strategy. His experience as a Joomla GSoC 2008 student is undoubtedly quite important and will assure a successful project in which I am eager to collaborate. This community bounding period is being used to become familiar with improved 1.6 ACL implementation (vital in this project) and refine the idea. Issues like J!fish integration has been successfully faced and solved thanks to Mostafa's talent and motivation. First project skeleton is ready and a workflow creation view specification is on the way.
Taxonomy extension for Joomla! is Garthee's proposal and I am his second mentor. Joomla! is limited by the simple section/category/article hierarchy for organizing content and this project tries to address this problem by proposing the development of a Taxonomy API, frontend views and modules to provide proper organization of content through Taxonomy and Tagging. A right organization, linking and tagging of information can be effective for users to go through the information of their interest. I remember the first idea rising in my head when reading his proposal was the use of taxonomy in Biology to classify living species which can be found in scientific databases like the ones in NCBI. Of course, Gathee worked in providing many more examples of taxonomy, tagging and faceted search (strongly linked to the previous ones) in action, letting users retrieve required information quickly even if the total amount is huge. This is not his first GSoC, but Joomla! is new for him and his current efforts are oriented to become familiar to Joomla development and re-defining the scope of the project. This project will definitely have a great impact on Joomla community.
Finally, I have to say I am quite satisfied with Joomla GSoC 2009 challenge and I hope to be an asset for my students during this exciting summer of code. Good luck guys!!! I am sure you will do an outstanding work.
Workflow Extension for Joomla! 1.6 is Mostafa's proposal for this GSoC 2009. The idea is to create a simple extensible workflow extension for
Joomla! that will support the core content component with the possibility to support other extensions. I have witnessed the necessity of workflow systems in several scenarios regarding sequential processes in organisational environments like presentation of project proposals, requests for funding or documentation and industrial processes (which are usually sequential by excellence) among others. I am sure this extension will have an important impact in Joomla community, increasing its adoption as a content management solution. It was really impressive to read Mostafa's proposal because of the clearness of his objectives and the level of detail exposed in his strategy. His experience as a Joomla GSoC 2008 student is undoubtedly quite important and will assure a successful project in which I am eager to collaborate. This community bounding period is being used to become familiar with improved 1.6 ACL implementation (vital in this project) and refine the idea. Issues like J!fish integration has been successfully faced and solved thanks to Mostafa's talent and motivation. First project skeleton is ready and a workflow creation view specification is on the way.
Taxonomy extension for Joomla! is Garthee's proposal and I am his second mentor. Joomla! is limited by the simple section/category/article hierarchy for organizing content and this project tries to address this problem by proposing the development of a Taxonomy API, frontend views and modules to provide proper organization of content through Taxonomy and Tagging. A right organization, linking and tagging of information can be effective for users to go through the information of their interest. I remember the first idea rising in my head when reading his proposal was the use of taxonomy in Biology to classify living species which can be found in scientific databases like the ones in NCBI. Of course, Gathee worked in providing many more examples of taxonomy, tagging and faceted search (strongly linked to the previous ones) in action, letting users retrieve required information quickly even if the total amount is huge. This is not his first GSoC, but Joomla! is new for him and his current efforts are oriented to become familiar to Joomla development and re-defining the scope of the project. This project will definitely have a great impact on Joomla community.
Finally, I have to say I am quite satisfied with Joomla GSoC 2009 challenge and I hope to be an asset for my students during this exciting summer of code. Good luck guys!!! I am sure you will do an outstanding work.
