Joomla with 9 Summer of Code projects
Seems like Joomla has gotten 9 slots in GSoC, not bad at all, but still: Drupal got 20 or so, so even if Joomla has got a very large forum userbase, Drupal might have a more active community. What do you think?
- Extending the Nested Sets Model with ‘Hardlinked Nested Sets’
by Enno Klasing, mentored by Louis Benton Landry - Development of Jigg component for Joomla! 1.5 [âJust Jigg it!â]
by Jay Soe, mentored by Jason Kendall - Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework
by Avi Mehta, mentored by Rastin Mehr - Email Interface for Publishing
by Nur Aini Rakhmawati, mentored by Mateusz Krzeszowiec - Semantic Web Integration
by Charl van Niekerk, mentored by Robert Schley - Geo-component for Joomla!
by Mickael MAISON, mentored by Andrew Eddie - Eclipse Plugin for develop Joomla’s Component/Module
by Muhammad Fuad, mentored by Laurens Vandeput - Joomla 1.5 Forum Component
by Niels Vandekeybus, mentored by Johan Janssens - General content recommendation component for Joomla
by Faolan Cheslack-Postava, mentored by Samuel Alexander Moffatt
Technorati Tags: Joomla, Summer of Code, google, content management, programming
on April 12th, 2007 at kl. 12.27
Hello Torkil,
“… even if Joomla has got a very large forum userbase, Drupal might have a more active community. What do you think?”
In saying that, maybe you are mistaking ‘community’ with ‘programmer community’ ?
All the best !
on April 12th, 2007 at kl. 15.45
Yeah. It could very well be that Drupal has a better appeal to more technical users, while Joomla appeals more to the not-so-technical ones? Mambo and Joomla were both founded on the “power in simplicity” mantra, so this could be just what one was hoping for?
Personally I work with Joomla, so I must admit I got a bit jealous when I saw the list of Drupal SoC projects :)
on April 12th, 2007 at kl. 23.28
Personaly I would go for quality over quantity every time. And is developing a template really worthy of being a SoC project?
on April 13th, 2007 at kl. 8.33
I have no grudge against Drupal, but I agree with Brian on the template part. Not exactly a coding project either, is it? In my opinion the interface has got alot to say when users first are trying to get to know a CMS, and therein lies Joomlas forte, so if Drupal can improve their core interface I am sure that is to their advantage.
They (Drupal) did however have some projects there that looked pretty interesting, and Google has found all those projects to be SoC material, so kudos to the Drupal community for that. $4500 to each of the students and $10000 to the organization behind Drupal. Not bad at all, considering there are templating jobs in there ;)
on April 30th, 2007 at kl. 9.20
Official blog post from Johan Janssens over at Joomla.org:
http://dev.joomla.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,33/p,313/