Google Summer of Code 2009

If you are student and looking for a Google Summer of Code project, Red Hat has been accepted as mentoring organization.
I've proposed one project so far, it is the same that has been proposed last year by Julien.

The project is a "web clipping framework" to create a portlet that would enable any web application to be run inside a portal. Simple web clipping portlets are easy to create but smart, customizable and fast ones are challenging. Unfortunately as of today opensource solutions haven't really beat the pricey proprietary solutions out there.

Let me know if this is of interest to you.

If you think of any other project you would like to propose and work on, I would love to hear from you !

JBoss Portal's code swarm

Looks like Emanuel got a littler bored tonight (European timezone) and made us the code swarm video of JBoss Portal commits.

Code swarm for those who don't know basically show the commits as time goes (you can read the date at the bottom right of the video). You'll see the usernames of commiters as they joined. Blue text are java commits, yellow for XML commits and red for XHTML (Barely saw any red).

This is totally useless but still fun. Consider contributing to be part of next code swarm video :)



Thank you Mucki !

Time to elect your best contributor

JBoss Community Leadership Awards votes have started.

People who've contributed to JBoss Portal:

• Peter Johnson for his forum activity in the issue/Jira category.
• Luca Stancapiano for the admin portlet internationalization and the Who's online portlet in the new feature category.
• Dan Krieger in the bug fix category.

It is time to show your love for contributors and sorry if you are not part of this list.

Voting will end on January 30th 2009 and winners will be announced at the JBoss Virtual Experience, a web-based JBoss technology conference which will be held February 11th 2009. There is no charge for admission, but please advance register if you'd like to attend.

JBoss Portal Summer of Contribution

Thanks to Bob, JBoss is a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008.

We have created a few JBoss Portal related subprojects for that matter:

• Content Clipper: Thomas started a few weeks ago a prototype of a web clipping engine that is able to integrate with different kind of content providers such as a remote web page, or a request dispatch into another application deployed in the same server. The goal is to transform the prototype into a project consumed by JBoss Portal.
• Web SPI implementations: we have developed a Web Service Provider Interface (SPI) that allow our latest product JBoss Portlet Container to be executed in any servlet container in a reliable manner. The student would develop implementations of the Web SPI implementations in order to integrate with additional servers.
• Dashboard system improvement: that project is focused on upgrading the portal object implementations (portal, pages, portlet windows system) in order to support additional page models that would allow to mix shared portlets with dashboard portlets.
• OpenID integration: extend the current portal SSO integration (CAS, JOSSO, OpenSSO) by providing an OpenID authentication implementation.

The different items are also described in our GSoC page here. If you are a student and you want to be involved in the JBoss Portal project, this is a very good opportunity for you to contribute to the project and join us!