{"id":254,"date":"2013-05-28T10:53:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T22:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2013-05-28T10:53:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T22:53:03","slug":"gsoc-2013-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/gsoc-2013-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"GSOC 2013 Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had some great applications for GSOC this year and there are 7 students who have been accepted. I&#8217;m excited to be working with 2 students this year &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google-melange.com\/gsoc\/project\/google\/gsoc2013\/mayankgupta2005\/88002\">Mayank Gupta<\/a> who will be working on improving the SCORM player in Moodle to work better on mobile devices &#8211; Mayank has been part of GSOC with Moodle in previous years so his continued contribution to SCORM is appreciated!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google-melange.com\/gsoc\/project\/google\/gsoc2013\/vmonaco\/20001\">Vinnie Monaco<\/a> submitted a proposal to develop a plugin that uses keystroke dynamics to verify the identity of a user before allowing them to enter a Moodle quiz &#8211; this will involve a practical application of his research and looks to be a very interesting way to verify the logged in user.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest mistake applicants made this year was not attempting to fix a Moodle bug &#8211; one of the requirements of the Moodle GSOC application process is that students must try to fix a Moodle bug &#8211; many didn&#8217;t try and some just rewrote a patch that was already available on the tracker.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the students who put effort into their applications &#8211; hopefully some of you will continue to engage in the Moodle community even if your applications weren&#8217;t successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had some great applications for GSOC this year and there are 7 students who have been accepted. I&#8217;m excited to be working with 2 students this year &#8211; Mayank Gupta who will be working on improving the SCORM player in Moodle to work better on mobile devices &#8211; Mayank has been part of GSOC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[9,3,5],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moodle","category-scorm","tag-gsoc","tag-moodle","tag-scorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}