On 16/02/07, Sam Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/02/07, John Resig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Everyone - > > > > Google's Summer of Code has just opened up for 2007, and I'd love to > > have jQuery be a part of it: > > http://code.google.com/soc/ > > > > If you're not familiar with how SoC works, Google pays a number of > > college students to work on an open source project for an entire > > summer. This is a great opportunity for the kids, and for the projects > > that they're supporting. > > > > In order to be able to apply, we'd have to come up with a list of > > things that we'd like them to do. So, I'm asking you (the jQuery > > community) what you think 1-3 decent coders could do for us for a > > summer? > > > > Some examples of good ideas (which should be expanded upon): > > - Build or port an unobtrusive charting plugin > > - Add jQuery support to a popular CMS/Framework > > - Build some interactive demos for jQuery.com > > - Add new functionality to Interface > > > > We're already working on the following improvements to the web site > > (so you don't need to ask for these): > > - A new plugins repository > > - A new forum area > > - A customizable download area > > > > Feel free to post your suggestions - all are welcome! > > > > --John > > It would be nice if we had more widget style plugins (plus a framework > to allow others to create them easily), like the ones you get for YUI > and Dojo. Some more (functional and practical) eye candy using > Interface would help bring in more users. > > Whatever is done should really degrade for less capable browser (or > without javascript on) as well. >
Another thing that could be valuable is interpretation of the HTML 5 spec (http://www.whatwg.org/). That would probably take longer that a summer, but parts of it (like the extensions to the input element - http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#extensions) could possibly be done in that time frame. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
