Google Summer of Code projects

[denise]

Auuugh, neither Mark nor I realized the deadline for GSOC was so close! (It's the 12th of March. Whups.)

We need ideas for things we would want someone to do -- largeish projects with lots of shiny that can be implemented fairly independently without a steep learning curve on the code. Mark's going to brainstorm his own list, but if anybody has any ideas, sound off!

Comments

[sophie]

I must admit, I'm not sure whether the idea of the GSOC works well for DW. While I understand that you have control over what gets in, I'm rather proud of the fact that all of our devs, bar none, actually use the site themselves.

I think it's something where you need to know the community before you know the code, and I would hate to see someone going in the other direction.

[denise]

Ah, but there are a lot of students who use DW, and would love to participate in GSOC. (It was one of our existing dev team that reminded us deadlines were coming up.)

[sophie]

I'm not precisely sure how it works, but if it's possible to only have someone who actually uses DW regularly, it sounds like it could be good.

[dani_the_girl]

photo hosting? Bookmarking?

[john]

photo hosting. yes.

or potentially implementing a google-reader-style reading page.

or maybe page-specific stats (i.e., hit counter)

[sofiaviolet]

I would also support photo hosting. It seems like a good fit for GSOC, and it's a rather highly-desired feature.

[zarhooie]

Photo hosting would be fantastic, with some sort of importer from pics.livejournal.com that preserves metadata and such.

[acb]

How about an interface to Facebook Connect, allowing users to log in with their Facebook credentials, users to add Facebook users to their access list, and/or users to selectively make (non-public) items viewable by their Facebook friends? A lot of people have friends who have no interest in keeping a journal online and are too busy to make Yet Another Social Network account, but would read one's posts if they could see them through their Facebook stream.

[msilverstar]

+1

[stormy]

I'd love to see a calendar system implemented, much in the style of Google Calendars. It'd just be nice to keep all that important stuff in one place.

Also, slightly off topic - I'd love to see someone somewhere create a Dreamwidth iPhone app.

[rho]

Clients.

[zvi]

+1000

[sophie]

Ooooooooo, I *Like* this idea!

[yvi]

Memories -> tagging system

[yvi]

Also, damn, why am I finishing university this month?

[zvi]

+1

[zvi]

Signed anonymous comments!

[afuna]

Hm, two things I'd like but they may be a bit too entwined in the current code:

* Better openid integration (more granular ability for the journal owner to decide whether openid is closer to anon or registered),some kind of JS-picker that lets them select the most common services, etc?)

* more granular community management privileges

[zvi]

Possibly too late for this, but the importer function that replaces the original LJ entry with a link to the DW imported entry, that would make people incredibly happy.

[superluminal]

atom publishing protocol support