Community News: PHP & the Google Summer of Code 2008

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:15:50 -0500

Besides the more official list of projects happening for this year's Google Summer of Code, there's also been a lot of buzz in the community about the projects and calls for developers to help out on their project of choice. Here's just a few:

Jay Pipes on some of the projects for MySQL Forge
The PHP-GTK Community site on their project
Marcus Borger encouraging participation in this year's GSoC
Sara Golemon's pointing developers in the right direction
A proposal from the thyphp.com site for a WordPress category suggestor
Derick Rethans mentioning his "pet peeve", the optimizer for APC
Elizabeth Smith promoting participation in any of the list of ideas

Keep up to date on the happenings on each of the projects in the PHP group on this page on the PHP.net wiki.

David Coallier's Blog: PHP is in! Come and join us this summer!

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:15:54 -0500

David Coallier is looking for a few good men (women, children, pets who can code, etc) to join up with the PHP development group for this year's Google Summer of Code to help with the various ideas they've come up with.

Hello everyone, as mentioned a few weeks ago the most awaited Google Summer of Code is back again this year. This being said, once again the PHP Project has been accepted and we have started posting our list of ideas (http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008).

Some of the projects proposed include:

PECL, website improvements and Windows Build Support
Automatic Code Checker
Implement Unicode into PHP 6
Build Infrastructure and macro bindings for writing extension in D
Rewrite the run-tests.php script
PhD: The PHP based Docbook renderer

Be sure to check out the full list and see where you might want to get involved!

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Community News: PHP & the Google Summer of Code 2008

David Coallier's Blog: PHP is in! Come and join us this summer!