[wp-hackers] GSOC 2011 Proposal

[Piyush Mishra]

May be something on top of BuddyPress and ScholarPress will do the trick.
Check out GSoC 2010 from Stas Sușcov,
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-courseware/

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Jess Planck <jess at funroe.net> wrote:

> As someone who is "the web department" for a small/medium sized university
> at http://www.nicholls.edu, I can attest that WordPress currently works
> decently well as a collaborative CMS. All content management solutions for
> any type of website are going to have different needs, so a "one size fits
> all" approach to deployment is unnecessary.
>
> Things that might be useful for a university based website are; Plugins to
> bridge some of the gaps to learning apps like Moodle or Blackboard, Plugins
> to strengthen profiles with/like BuddyPress to help university communities
> communicate, catalog and course management information and stuff that can
> hook into ugly higher ed management systems like SCT Banner, and training
> tools for WordPress always help. Heck, GSoC projects that just help to
> continue the development of tools like WordPress that help guys like me do
> my job with no budget and no staff helps tremendously.
>
> Peace!
> Jess
>
> [  :P  ]  jess planck  -  http://funroe.net
>
> On Mar 13, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Piyush Mishra wrote:
>
> > Gaurav its a good idea, specially in India but may be not one for GSoC.
> on
> > the other hand the same idea under a different name and may be some more
> > thinking will give you a good proposal idea
> > In this case,
> > Think more on the lines of adding few capabilities to WordPress such that
> it
> > can be used, as is, like a complete CMS. {obviously then you can use it
> for
> > a univ website too, with may be a plugin or two}
> > WordPress can be used as a complete CMS but its not something its
> configured
> > for by default (Don't torch me for writing this, please!)
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Gaurav Aggarwal
> > <gaurav91.2008 at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> I am a member of Web Team of my University http://dce.edu and
> personally
> >> we
> >> use our custom cms on a dedicated (self hosted server)
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Barry Carlyon <
> barry at barrycarlyon.co.uk
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I don't.
> >>>
> >>> Its a great idea, but University's usually have their own IT department
> >>> which usually under their remit have the website.
> >>> And most universities provide website space to their departments since
> >> many
> >>> different departments require a different setup to others.
> >>>
> >>> For example the web/computing department would want LAMP's and
> generally
> >>> everything else ends up on IIS powered gear.
> >>>
> >>> I speak from knowing bits and pieces about how the University of Leeds
> >>> website infrastructure is setup.
> >>>
> >>> WordPress doesn't have the power and flexibility or security needed to
> >>> manage a whole university.
> >>>
> >>> Something for a specific department that doesn't want to use the
> >> university
> >>> provided space or cms yes tho.
> >>>
> >>> --------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Barry Carlyon
> >>> Freelance Web Developer
> >>> Freelance Lighting/AV Engineer
> >>>
> >>> http://barrycarlyon.co.uk
> >>>
> >>> mobile: 07729 048 443
> >>> skype: barrycarlyon
> >>> email: barry at barrycarlyon.co.uk
> >>> msn: barry at barrycarlyon.co.uk
> >>>
> >>> On 13 Mar 2011, at 18:26, djds4rce prabhu wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello all,
> >>>> This is what I propose to do in GSoC 2011: A plugin to build and
> manage
> >>>> University websites.
> >>>> University websites are now powered by CMS’s. Building and maintaining
> >> a
> >>>> full fledged University
> >>>> website is a pain. I am saying this with some experience in doing so.
> A
> >>>> WordPress plugin for creating a university site will make WordPress
> the
> >>> best
> >>>> choice for such websites.
> >>>> The plugin would provide the following features :
> >>>> - Pages for various departments(also student organizations, research
> >>> groups
> >>>> et al)
> >>>> - Easy way for adding Staff
> >>>> - Staff pages added as child to pages
> >>>> - Providing news separately for each department
> >>>> - Easy result publications
> >>>> - Permission and workflows
> >>>> -Events calender
> >>>>
> >>>> Does any one think this is a good proposal for the project?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you.
> >>>>
> >>>> Dayanand Prabhu
> >>>>
> >>>> http://reversepolarity.in
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> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> regards,
> >>
> >> Gaurav Aggarwal
> >> IIIrd year student
> >> Computers Engineering
> >> Delhi College of Engineering
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