It’s that time of year again when Google invites college and university students to work on open source projects http://code.google.com/soc/, see http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/03/now-accepting-student-applications-for.html Now Accepting Student Applications for Google Summer of Code 2007 for how to apply etc…
WordPress (the CMS used for this site) is participating in Google’s Summer of Code and until the 24th March are open to ideas http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/google-summer-of-code/ from users etc… for project ideas.
Will be interesting to see what they come up with.
What I’d like to see is-
1. The image/link bug fixed. When you post an image as a link WordPress forgets to add the closing link tag (/a). At least not fixed in WordPress 2.0.4 (can’t use latest version, need to update the server to run it).
2. The ability to split up large posts into multiple pages without the need for using the nextpage tag and so WordPress splits the post into multiple database entries. To expand on this I was working on a project to use public domain books within WordPress, post an entire book and have it automatically split the book into multiple pages. Got it working except the automated bit (had to create a PHP script that added the nextpage tag every X characters) and then realised though WordPress will break the book into pages (as wanted) it did so by pulling the entire book from the database for every page!! This meant if you had a 1MB book rather than page one being 5KB or something download from the database it was the entire 1MB, same for page 2 (entire 1MB), page 3 (entire 1MB) etc… so had to abandon the project using WordPress because of this. A shame as WordPress is so easy to work with.
If I think of anything else will post here 
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2 responses to Google Summer of Code and WordPress
Yeah, Google has a lot to be thanked for by running Google Summer of Code. Not only do students start their careers off in the right direction and have lots of fun contributing to open source, many projects get valuable exposure and enhancements that otherwise would be impossible.
Another avenue people may wish to look at is the Summer of Code idea for SilverStripe and WordPress to interoperate; see the “mashup” idea at http://www.silverstripe.com/google-summer-of-code-2007-we-are-in/
Google Summer of Code and WordPress
1. I have not seen that issue on trunk, so I think it is safe to say it is fixed.
2. Is an interesting issue, probably is not relevant to most people though.
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