I've been working on a social learning site based on Drupal for the past two years as a student at Brigham Young University and am now working towards readying it for its maiden release into the world as a full-fledged Drupal install profile.
My goal with Eduglu is to:
a) Provide a superb out-of-the-box social learning engine to help departments, clubs, classrooms, and other campus groups communicate, collaborate, and learn with one another.
Lately I've been helping out a web development team at BYU develop a new calendaring system in Drupal to replace our existing all-in-one calendar. It's an ambitious project that's leveraging quite a few different modules from the Drupalsphere.
Some of the features include:
I had the amazing opportunity to present this past March at Drupalcon DC 2009 on my research and work on https://island.byu.edu
I just submitted my application to the Knight News Challenge. My application is for money to bring the Memetracker and Content Recommendation Engine modules to production ready status. Memetracker, is of course, the module I wrote this past summer as part of Google Summer of Code.
Here's a great quote from a journal article I'm reading for class. The article nails the problem with most social media / knowledge management installations in organizations.
This summer I was accepted to Google Summer of Code to build a memetracker application for Drupal.
I want the Memetracker module to facilitate online conversations amongst distributed communities. For my dream to become reality, Memetracker will need help from many talented developers. This summer I'll be setting a solid foundation for future development of the memetracker module. One important thing I'll be doing is writing unit tests for all the functions of the memetracker. Unit tests, I'm convinced, is one thing Memetracker needs in order to ensure its long term success.
I recently made my first alpha release of the Drupal Memetracker module. You can download it from the project page on the Drupal community site.
An screenshot from the latest code:
I spent the morning converting my blog from Wordpress to Drupal. I figured that since I build all my sites using Drupal and I'm building a memetracker module for Drupal as part of Google Summer of Code, I should switch my personal website/blog to Drupal. Wordpress is a great blogging platform but I'm glad now to be on Drupal.
I'm very excited to announce that I've been accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. I will be writing memetracking software that will enable anyone to set up a Google News or Techmeme like site on any topic. Do you want to develop a news site following economic news? You can with my software. Do you want a site that tracks the latest Facebook Application development news?
I propose to write two modules for Drupal as part of Google Summer of Code. One called memetracker and the other called machinelearningapi. The memetracker module will use algorithms in the machinelearningapi to intelligently filter and group content from designated content sources both internal and external. The module's purpose is to find and display to a community in real time the most interesting conversations and memes within the community as they emerge.
