Re: [xwiki-devs] Possible project ideas for XWiki in GSoC 2009

You mentioned GSOC 2008 and http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/SSOAndOpenIDSupport ... what is the status of any code completed to date?

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/int… 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/… follow instructions in http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Authentication#HCustomA… 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 <thilinamb(a)gmail.com>wrote;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