Eight Students Selected to Contribute to Joomla Project

In March 2012, Google (News - Alert) announced that Joomla has been added to the list of Google Summer of Code participants. This year, Google accepted another Joomla project into the Google Summer of Code program.

Recently, Google announced that eight students were accepted to Google Summer of Code for Joomla.  These students have proposed various projects and various developers will be participating in the Joomla development community.

The eight students include Javier Gómez: Language Installation for the CMS; Lucas Tiago De Castro Jesus: Language Translation Extension; Aaron Schmitz: Google API; Diana Prajescu: Facebook API; Florian Voutzinos: Workflow API; Kavith Thiranga Lokuhewage: JS / CSS (News - Alert) Compression API; Prasath Nadarajah: MediaWiki API; and Stefan Neculai: Web Services API, the company stated in a press release.

The students, selected to work on Joomla projects, are from countries like Brazil, France, Romania, Sri Lanka and the United States. Among them, 18 year old, Aaron Schmitz who just completed his junior year at the University of Minnesota, and was also the top American finisher at the Google Code-in competition, an open source coding competition for 13 to 17 year-old students.

“We're excited to see what kind of code these students come up with, but we're equally as excited to have these students join the Joomla community," said Elin Waring of the Joomla Production Working Group, who is co-administering the Google Summer of Code projects. "The end goal with Joomla developers is all about creating code that millions of people use, but it is the interaction and sharing of ideas in our community that makes Joomla tick.”

In 2011, TMC (News - Alert) reported that the company’s software was downloaded more than 25 million times. Along with numerous Web design firms, freelance developers and Web development consultancies that build services around Joomla, the company platform also consists of massive international Joomla communities who are not part of the English-speaking world, from small personal websites to some of the largest enterprise, highest trafficked websites.