I didn’t want to write about this until I had something to show, now I got some updates and I think I will be the last person involved in this project who didn’t write anything about it yet. Yes, I was accepted as a Google Summer of Code student this year. And the umbrella project I will be am working for is WordPress (which is the best I could only dream about) and their social network project called BuddyPress.

So what coding exactly I’m doing this summer? Remember Moodle, or Blackboard (yep, that was new to me too) or if you know what is a LMS, well, I am building a LMS above the BuddyPress social network. This means everyone can get a facebook/ning and a moodle in a box once the project is done.

The crew. Besides me there are two more mentors:

• Jeremy Boggs — The initiator of ScholarPress project from where I will borrow code and implementation ideas.
• Boone Gorges — The all things BuddyPress guy.

and a bunch of people I have to mention for their support and ideas: Jane, Kyle, WP-Edu subscribers.

The project timeline and updates can be followed on my other blog. Also there you will find, the instructions for how to install the new component.