Welcome to the pnCommunity!

It's nice to be able to announce, that following our numerous problems with GForge at the NOC over the last year the replacement solution that we promised is ready to go. Chris Hildebrandt, known as slam on the forums has been hard at work for a number of months producing a trac installation on which third party developers can host their PostNuke projects.

Some of you may not be familiar with Trac. Taken straight from the Trac website - "Trac is an enhanced Wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects... It provides an interface to Subversion, an integrated Wiki and convenient reporting facilities."

See trac.postnuke.com in action!

The calendar module PostSchedule is vulnerable for a SQL injection. Some sites have already been hacked after the public announcement of the exploit on milw0rm.com last week.

As mentioned in our previous article on the Summer of Code, we're hoping to publish an interview with each of our SoC students for this year. This is the first in the series, with Mathieu Prevel, who will be undertaking the revisions control project.

1. Please tell us a little about yourself: your name, where you come from, what you study and where you attend university. Perhaps you run a website or have an interesting hobby?

My name is Mathieu. I am 21 student and I live in South of France in a little (very small) town "La Canourgue". I am studying water management and in the future I would like to create softwares about water management, water supply, or any linked to water treatments. My website is a game in PHP http://www.NeorgGenesyS.fr. I am interested in Linux, PHP, C, (x)HTML, CSS, JavaScript and all kinds to program. I like flyfishing and sports.

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As mentioned in our previous article on the Summer of Code, we're hoping to publish an interview with each of our SoC students for this year. This is the third in the series, with Carlos Mauro, who will be undertaking the usability project.

1. Please tell us a little about yourself: your name, where you come from, what you study and where you attend university. Perhaps you run a website or have an interesting hobby?

My name is Carlos Mauro Cárdenas Fernández. My from is Perú and i live in Lima. I'm studing Engineering Systems in the National University of Engineering (www.uni.edu.pe). I am studying the tenth cycle. I'm course the tenth cycle. I am doing my thesis topic regarding the usability of software.

I am a member of the association of Peruvian Free Software APESOL. I participated also as president of the organization of the Festival of Latin American Free Software Installation in 2006. I also like make hack as issues at a time when I did something VoIP, streaming, CdLive, and others.

I always liked the theme of web development as well as aesthetics. So usability is a subject that interested me.

I also like the systems engineering, important to understand the complexity of life. I think many in this community are countrymen of Ludwig Von Bertanfly :D.
My Blog is: http://unimauro.blogspot.com
My Hobby: read a lot of... running in the morning
Lately I like to cook :$
Well i like the Free Sofware and OpenSource.

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As mentioned in our previous article on the Summer of Code, we're hoping to publish an interview with each of our SoC students for this year. This is the second in the series, with John Pritchard, who will be undertaking the categories project.

1. Please tell us a little about yourself: your name, where you come from, what you study and where you attend university. Perhaps you run a website or have an interesting hobby?

My name is John Pritchard and I'm currently in my second year of a Maths and Computer Science BSc at Bristol University in the UK. I'm originally from Newport in South Wales (only about 30 mins away from my university but far enough from home so that my parents don't constantly visit me :P). At the moment, the only website I run is the Bristol Real Ale Society website (http://www.bristolrealale.co.uk/) but the society is suffering a bit at the moment because a lot of people only signed up for the cheap booze rather than for social events (though I can't say I blame them lol).

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As mentioned in our previous article on the Summer of Code, we're hoping to publish an interview with each of our SoC students for this year. This is the first in the series, with Daniel Byrd, who will be undertaking the search engine project.

1. Please tell us a little about yourself: your name, where you come from, what you study and where you attend university. Perhaps you run a website or have an interesting hobby?

My name’s Daniel Byrd, I’m currently approaching the end of my second year of a computer science degree at Oxford University England. Ironically, my mentor is doing the same but at Cambridge (Simon Birtwistle [HammerHead]), so I think that settles once and for all any rivalry the universities have ever had in the past.

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I'm glad to report that Google has announced the projects accepted for the Summer of Code 2008. PostNuke has had four students allocated, who are undertaking projects from our ideas page: a new search module, categories module changes, usability enhancements and a revisions control system.

We hope to publish a short interview with each student over the next few days. Meanwhile, today marks the start of the community bonding period, which students should use to get to know the project and what makes PostNuke so great. Please make them feel welcome.

The four students accepted are Daniel Byrd, Carlos Fernandez, Prevel Mathieu and John Pritchard. You can read the abstracts of the project proposals on the Google SoC website.

There's a lot going on at the moment which is not visible to everybody. I would like to summarize some of the developments in this article.

OpenID, the free decentralized indentity and Single Sign On system, is now available for PostNuke. You can use it for doing Single Sign On between all your websites - and even manage secure and restricted access to closed websites via OpenID identities.

This year the German PostNuke association is arranging a meeting which happens in late summer as usual. After Frank Schummertz (landseer) has already organized all four pnMeetings, I have the honour of scheduling the first meeting under the new name. Both users and developers alike are openly invited to become acquainted with each other and exchange experiences about their past and future work with our favourite framework.