Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be working with a several open source, free software and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Historically, the program has brought together over 1,000 students with over 100 open source projects, to create hundreds of thousands of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its third year, following on from a very successful 2006.

Open Source CMS vendors in Google Summer of Code:

• Daisy CMS
• Drupal
• Joomla!
• Plone

Project suggestions from the Open Source CMS vendors

A look trough the projects proposals shows a lot of similar projects throughout all the Open Source CMS vendors. Integrations of different Google goodies, SEO systems and WebDav improvements are the buzz of this years projects.

One project proposal is standing out from the crowd. SilverStripe, a new Open Source CMS vendor which we wrote about for some weeks ago suggested an integration with OpenID authentication.

SiverStripe wrote in their introduction to the project:

“This would allow people to perform tasks on SilverStripe sites with having identified themselves as an Open ID account holder. This could be to blog, access private content, buy products, join mailing lists, access forums, or even log into the CMS. This helps with our aim to make life easy for visitors to websites powered by SilverStripe, because it is more likely for people to have an OpenID account than a username/password for a specific single SilverStripe-powered website. (Don't you hate it when you see an interesting forum post but you need to sign up for that forum on top of the other 100 you already belong to, just for 1 or 2 posts?) This would require a moderate knowledge of PHP5. An interest in web-based APIs and security would be helpful.”