Linux.com: "The key to being successful in the IT industry is interning while still attending college and taking some certification courses after graduation. Do some research. Find an open source technology company that will provide you with the tools and resources you will need to build your career. Open source spans platforms, middleware and applications from data centers to desktops. There are many companies that offer internship programs and certification courses."
summer of code
Geeklog 1.5.0 Released
After 18 months of development, Geeklog 1.5.0 has been released. As I mentioned last month, changes found in Geeklog 1.5.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during the 2007 Google Summer of Code:
- New user-friendly install script
- New Configuration Graphical User Interface
- New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol
Additional new features and enhancements included in this release:
- OpenID support.
- New LDAP remote authentication module.
- Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.
- Rewrite of the underlying story code which addresses issues with special characters and HTML entities.
- Comments can now be closed, i.e. existing comments will still be displayed but no new comment can be posted.
- The Polls plugin now allows for multiple questions per poll.
- The Static Pages plugin now supports comments.
- The database backup admin panel now lets you delete and download backups.
- Theming improvements including the support of XHTML.
Geeklog 1.5 can be downloaded at Geeklog.net.
Google Summer of Code
Google Code: "Google Summer of Code 2008 is on! Over the past three
years, the program has brought together over 1500 students and
2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide, all for the love of
code. This year, we're welcoming 1125 student contributors and 175
Free and Open Source projects into the program. You can find out more
about each participating organization and abstracts of their accepted
students' proposals by visiting each organization's page, below. We'll
SilverStripe's Sigurd Magnusson on YouTube
Sigurd Magnusson wrote to us letting us know about a YouTube video where he talks about his company's content management system, SilverStripe. The video was recorded while at a recent function at Google for software developers.
Here's some interesting content for both you and your readers, providing a quick overview of our project, company and our success with the Google Summer of Code project. :-)
Putting focus on SilverStripe
While the content management system, SilverStripe, has been on my radar for some time I never really took the time to cover the Web application here at CMS Report. Now it so happens that SilverStripe has been nominated as one of the most promising open source CMS out there. About the only thing I can do to correct my oversight is to put SilverStripe on a list of the "top 30" CMS we focus on here at CMS Report. Sadly, mostly out of nostalgia, SilverStripe will be bumping Simple PHP Blog off the "CMS Focus" list.
Earlier this month, SilverStripe 2.1 was released. The folks on the SilverStripe team appear pretty excited about this release, with just the right synergy brewing to give this CMS a good future. Some of the new features and improvements in SilverStripe 2.1 include:
- New security system (benefiting from Google Summer of Code)
- Blog Module (with drag-n-drop widget support including tag clouds, RSS feed, etc)
- Support for Updated Gallery Module
Download links to SilverStripe 2.1 are available via SilverStripe.com.
Wordpress.org: Google Summer of Code
I really can't display every open source project's invitation for college students to apply to Google's Summer of Code. But just like the invitation from Drupal, Wordpress would be another one of those projects I wouldn't have minded working on when I was going to college.
Coding during my college years would have been a whole lot more fun than some of the jobs I did have while in school. There is only so much reward you can get from stocking shelves at a grocery store during the night shift. Of course I'm not so sure Turbo Pascal would really have been up to the tasks of today's Web 2.0 environment.
Looking for something fun to do this summer? All college and university students around the world are invited to apply to get paid $4,500 USD to work on your favorite open source project this summer. WordPress is among the 131 accepted to Google Summer of Code, of more than 300 projects that applied
We have eight committed volunteers who are enthusiastic to mentor, learn, and make WordPress a little better in the process.
Check out our ideas for projects, or propose your own. You must apply by March 24. Good luck! Original Post
Coding during my college years would have been a whole lot more fun than some of the jobs I did have while in school. There is only so much reward you can get from stocking shelves at a grocery store during the night shift. Of course I'm not so sure Turbo Pascal would really have been up to the tasks of today's Web 2.0 environment.Drupal leader invites students to improve code
Dries Buytaert, lead of the Drupal project, invited students on his blog to participate in Google's Summer of Code and at the same time help improve the Drupal core. This is Google's third year for the program which hopes to encourage college students to work on open source projects. Chris Dibona, Open Source Program Manager at Google, wrote:
Last year we paid 630 students from 450 schools in 90 countries $4,500 each to work on open source software projects. These projects, selected by some 100 open source mentoring organizations from over 6,000 applications, provided students with invaluable real-world programming experience.For the Summer of Code 2007, Google is hoping to accept an additional 200 students and add additional open source projects to its program. I should also add that not only does the participating student collect money from Google, but participating open source projects mentoring the student will also collect $500 at the end of summer.
Lullabot: Drupal Podcast No. 23: Summer of Code Wrapup
"Robert Douglass, Angie Byron, and Jeff Robbins take a look at the outcome of the various Drupal Summer of Code projects."
Jeremy Epstein: Drupal Import / Export API
Jeremy Epstein: Import / Export API: progress report #1 -
"It's been almost two weeks since the 2006 Summer of Code began, and with it, my work to develop an import / export API module for Drupal. In case you missed it, my work is being documented on this wiki. My latest code is now also available as a project on drupal.org. Since I've barely started, I think that this is a stupid time to sit back and reflect on what I've done so far. But I'm doing it anyway."
[Planet Drupal]
