Hi Niels, Someone should start organising the GSOC 2009 page and start to fill project proposals.
I'm pretty sure we'll all want to have widget integration as a GSOC 2009 project (open social, etc). > You mentioned GSOC 2008 and > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SSOAndOpenIDSupport > ... > what is the status of any code completed to date? It was done and basically working AFAIR but it needs to be integrated and I remember Thomas Mortagne saying that we should overhaul our current authentication API before integrating it as otherwise the integration would be too "hacky". -Vincent On Feb 4, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Niels Mayer wrote: > For some strange reason, I think this is an excellent idea :-) > > Of these, which has the easiest to integrate: > http://www.google.com/friendconnect/ > http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php > http://developer.myspace.com/Community/blogs/devteam/archive/2008/12/09/introducing-the-myspace-open-platform-and-myspaceid.aspx > > Friendconnect has always looked most interesting of the lot, since > it will > give you a variety of customizable friendconnect "widgets" . Once you > request and customize a particular instance, google generates the > code and > presents it in a scrollable textarea. > > Reusing the framework of one of Xwiki's existing panels is a good > way to > wrap Google Friendconnect socialnetworking into an Xwiki site. You'd > basically take the code and paste it into the panel document. Then > layout > one or more of the google panels into the "sidebars" in Xwiki. This > permits > xwiki to layout the friendconnect panels as if they were :"one of > it's own." > > Probably the easiest first-experiment would be to take an existing > panel > that you probably don't use, like /xwiki/bin/inline/Panels/Welcome; > as > 'Admin' click "edit" and then paste in the google code between > #panelheader("Welcome") and #panelfooter(). Later, create more via > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Panels/CreatePanel ... > > This video shows what happens on the google-side: > http://www.youtube.com/v/N94s7ix0JPo&hl=en&autoplay=1 > > I haven't looked at friendconnect's OpenID implementation so I don't > know > how it would coexist or overlap w/ Xwiki's auth. > I'd assume you'd create an implementation per > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/java/com/xpn/xwiki/user/api/XWikiAuthService.javaand > follow instructions in > http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Authentication#HCustomAuthentication > > You mentioned GSOC 2008 and > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SSOAndOpenIDSupport > ... > what is the status of any code completed to date? > > Niels > http://nielsmayer.com > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Thilina Buddhika > <thilin...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a growing interest on XWiki and willing to take part in its >> development. I am also planning to apply for GSoC 2009 (yet to be >> announced) >> and I have realised that XWiki is a challenging and promising open >> source >> project for GSoC 2009. >> >> When watching the developer list, I found this mail by Niels Mayer >> with the >> subject,* "Social Networking via OpenID support in Xwiki?"*. And It >> looks >> like an intersting idea. I also found that there was a GSoC 2008 >> project >> related to this idea [1]. So is it possible to continue this project >> further >> ? >> >> Other than the above idea, I would like to know the other possible >> project >> ideas for GSoC 2009. If it is too early I am posting about this, >> then lets >> leave it for the next couple of weeks. Anyway I am trying to get >> familiarized with Xwiki until the GSoC 2009 is announced. >> >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> best regards, >> / thilina >> >> [1] - >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SSOAndOpenIDSupport _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
