Re: Project Ideas I found interesting for GSoC-14

Hi there,

> I went through the project ideas for Plone's participation in this
> year's GSoC and found 3 of them grab my attention.
>
> 1. Better helper packages for the security team.

>      I found this interesting because I had done development on python
> before under my IT Workshop course :
>      > Have written various python scripts.
>      > Worked with python while developing on Web2py.
>
>      Also I recently started developing on Plone as was suggested to me,
> and I found it good.
>
>      About Dexterity content types, at present I have no idea. However I
> will start reading its documentation :
> http://plone.org/products/dexterity <http://plone..org/products/dexterity>

As this project requires experience with Dexterity and Plone development 
experience my advice would be to get experience in those two before 
doing anything else on this project.

> 2. New Theme pack
>
>      Working with UI always interests me as its the thing that is
> captured by eye.
>      I have started reading about Diazo from the mentioned documentation
> link : http://docs.diazo.org/en/latest/
>
>      It would be great if someone can guide me with theming and views in
> Plone.
>      Should I start with : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.app.theming ?

Yes. Also Google 'Diazo' and look at the info in the theming control 
panel, there is quite a lot out there.

> 3. Plone Multilingual Babel View
>
>      I would like to know more about it. As mentioned in the
> implementation part, I need to know about plone.app.multilingual. It
> would be great if assigned mentor Ramon Navarro Bosch could brief me
> with how I should get started on it.
>      The fact that it deals with different languages interests me.
>      Skills required are also easily within my reach.

It seems this project is no longer available, my apologies.

Matt



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