We are thrilled to announce that Google will be sponsoring 20 Drupal projects for Summer of Code 2011. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Google, who are investing over $110,000 in the Drupal project.

As always, we had many more projects that we would have liked to accept than we were able to. The mentoring team deliberated fiercely over the past two weeks, and arrived at the final acceptance list.

Many of the projects this year were from the idea list we collected at DrupalCon Chicago. Drupal will benefit from a new exposed translation activity, hierarchical permissions for Drupal 8 core, javaScript testing framework, version control activity logging, Module and Theme Browser in Drupal Core and Drupal Commerce discounts setup. There are also projects focused on improvements to the Drupal.org infrastructure such as including git infrastructure compatible with Drupal's auth mechanism.

Some of Drupal's major contributed modules will also gain, including extending the current "Materialized Views" API, help Aegir move to a 2.0 release, improving rules 2 etc.

If you would like to keep up to date on Summer of Code happenings, would like to volunteer to help test students' projects, and/or would like to help students as they find their way in our community, please join the SoC 2011 working group and help out in whatever ways you can.

Here's to another great summer! :)

Application
Student
Mentors
Expose Drupal translation activity
Adam Lippai
gaborhojtsy
Making the git infrastructure compatible with Drupal's auth mechanism
Anshul Singhle
sdboyer
Hierarchical permissions for Drupal 8
Bálint Kléri
 
chx
Version Control Activity logging, Activity Streams and Development Statistics
Christophe Van Gysel
sdboyer, sirkitree
JavaScript testing framework
cwgordon7
ksenzee
Recommender Module Performance Enhancement & Drupal for Data-intensive Computing
Daniel Zhou
Owen Barton, dylan_tack
Extending the current "Materialized Views" API
Dhruv Baldawa
straussd
Improving the Search API
Thomas Seidl
mh86, narres
Drupal Commerce discounts setup
Felipe Eltermann
rszrama, wundo
Porting Neologism to Drupal 7
Mayank Kandpal
cygri, dylan_tack
Business Analytics and Reporting
nodestroy
mh86, zsanmartin
Help Aegir move to a 2.0 release
Seth Vincent
anarcat
Improving Rules 2
sebastian
klausi
Integrate node.js as well as DrupalChat module functionality to Chatroom module.
Shashwat Srivastava
afeijo, zesanmartin, justinrandell
Derivates API for Media ecosystem (D7)
Janez Urevc
kreynen
Secure Code Review
Jim Berry
greggles, stella
Onboarding API
Tiago Carmona
wundo, ezra-g
Porting DrupalGapps to D7 & Integration of OAuth & Google Documents List API
Vaidik
ankur, dereine, stella, houndbee
Module and Theme Browser in Drupal Core
Leighton Whiting
dmitrig01
Conditional text
Tamás Demeter-Haludka
jhodgdon

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