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Hello Everybody
I'm Nakul Ganesh S from India and I was a part of Joomla! SOC 2008.
And as we all know,SOC 2009 is here again and I'm hoping to be a part of it again.

This time around I'm goinng to try to help make civiCRM more accessible by Joomla! trying to expose civiCRM to its frontend.
My project idea can be found here for more details. http://docs.joomla.org/Summer_of_Code_2009_Project_Ideas#CiviCRM_Integration:_Plugins_to_Expose_the_CiviCRM_API_to_the_Joomla.21_Front_End

As such initially,I'm planning to include the following features as a part of my project.It would be very nice if I could get some feedback and suggestions

1)Module to display/search contact information
2)Module to display/search groups (Group Listing)
3)Module to display/search groups (Member Listing)
4)Module to add user from frontend(For a section of privileged users)
5)Module displaying an individual's information from a given profile with the option to update
6)Module displaying an individual's summary giving information

The second phase concentrates on other sections such as Events,Contributions,Pledges
1)Module to display list of events(predefined)
2)Module to automatically display list of events(Based on logged user's interest/location/age etc)
3)Module to create a new event from the frontend
4)Module to show progress of a fund raiser(Graphics,using google charts API)
5)Module to display list of donors,total donations etc.Also graphical reports based on contributions.
6)Module to create a fund raiser/campaign from the frontend
7)Custom civiCRM module that can generate a report of any of its sections (Admin User defined)

Thank You

The modules to display users/groups/events etc can be setup dynamically , i.e the filter can be set such that the module displays results based on certain parameters such as geographical location,interests,recently browsed,members,count etc or predefined.

I think these proposals look interesting.

lobo-
Joomla modules are the various "blocks" built into the template -- distinct from the main body region, which is where all existing Civi pages are displayed.

if I understand the proposal, Nakul is proposing building some smaller "widgets" for common Civi functions to be displayed in J module positions, which I think could be very useful. the challenge will be how to handle configuration. currently, all configuration happens in Civi -- the J menu items for Civi only identify which of the preconfigured Civi tools will be displayed on a given page.

the listing proposals (events, groups, etc.) in particular would be very useful.

I think you would need to build these modules such that all configuration happens on the J side of things. parameters would be fairly limited in scope, so that shouldn't be a problem.

I'd like to interact with the project as it develops.

CAVEAT: some of the above may not be reasonably do-able w/o 'hacking' Joomla core which is certainly not a good idea :-)

At the same time: if the ‘hack’ would be well thought out and could benefit other Joomla! components, then doing it as a part of a Joomla! GSoC project (and getting it into Joomla! 1.6) seems like a very good idea. :)

To be able to have one or more Civicrm projects in GSoC we need to have mentors. Google recommends that two people co-mentor each project. I'm willing to work with people on this but it would really help if we had some additional mentor volunteers.

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/772-joomla-accepted-for-summer-of-code-now-all-we-need-are-mentors-and-students.html


Please sign up .

Elin,
I've signed up as a mentor. Not sure how to "connect" that with a specific GSoC project. Maybe that happens down the road...
-Brian