Design, WordPress, & Google’s SoC

April 11th, 2007  | Categories: Design, General, Open Source

My application for the Google Summer of Code student project was accepted! The short description of my project is to find three ways to improve WordPress. To accomplish this, I plan to do a competitive analysis of WordPress and three of its competitors and keep in mind functionality, suitability, and usability. The results will help form ideas which will then be designed and prototyped for integration into WordPress.

I will be mentored by Matt Mullenweg of WordPress. Read more at the SoC project page: WordPress Market and Suitability Research and Prototyping

In addition to a nice stipend, I will be able to use this project for my last few credits towards my graduate degree at the University of Baltimore.

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  1. Fred
    April 11th, 2007 at 23:06
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    Congratulations :) Wish I could use GSoC for uni credits…

  2. Lynoure Braakman
    April 12th, 2007 at 00:34
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    Which three competitors do you plan to study?

  3. katie
    April 12th, 2007 at 07:01
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    Congratulations! I’ll be interested to hear what you come up with.

  4. seele
    April 12th, 2007 at 07:57
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    @Lynoure

    I’m not yet sure which product I will be reviewing, but as long as life doesn’t get too crazy I will probably blog about my progress.

  5. Lilandra
    April 13th, 2007 at 12:42
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    Hey that sounds like fun.
    Good luck!

  6. Liz Henry
    April 16th, 2007 at 01:46
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    That’s great! I look forward to reading it when it comes out. Will you be blogging about your study while it’s in progress?

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