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OpenSocial
Written by Shannon Quinn   

...to equally humble endings.

But oh so much fun in between!

Greetings! :)  My name is Shannon.  I am a 23 year-old undergraduate studying Computer Science at Georgia Tech, slated to gradumacate this August on the 1st (w00t!) and head off to Carnegie Mellon for graduate school, delving into the burdgeoning world of Bioinformatics.

BUT!  Before the fall comes the summer!

I am fairly new to the Joomla! community.  More specifically, I've been one of those annoying lurkers for the past few years who reads articles but never responds.  A stealth member, if you will. :P  Now, having applied to the Google Summer of Code, proposing to integrate the OpenSocial API into the modular, robust, and all-around impressive CMS Joomla!, I will be a much more active figure in the community.

And, you know, hopefully engaging those of you gentle readers in conversation, be it about my project, Joomla! in general, or any mistakes I've made (of which there will be many, I have no doubt).  For this reason (as well as the simple fact that I love conversation), please feel free to give me feedback!  After I've been staring at PHP for hours and hours, it all tends to start looking like rainbows to me.

Blue rainbows with white backgrounds.

...

Anyway.

I'll keep everyone apprised of my progress, roadblocks, brainstorms, and general nerdtacular silliness related to this summer's OpenSocial project here, so be sure to check back every now and then.  You know, if you're bored or something.

(P.S. The Joomla! administrators have recommeded that we blog at least once every two weeks.  I'm thinking...twice a week.  *grin*)

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4 Comments

  1. Amy Stephen makes this comment

    Rock! Thanks Shannon - it's going to be fun!

    Thu 01 May 2008 12:10:24 EDT

  2. Shannon Quinn makes this comment

    Yes it is! :D I'll have more details on the project and a few beginning brainstorms once the deluge of finals is over.

    Thu 01 May 2008 19:07:14 EDT

  3. Chalet16 makes this comment

    I'm currectly working in Joomla-Facebook projects. If you have anything that I can help. Please fell free to contact me. My email is chalet16@gmail.com . Waiting for your project and integrate back to my project. :D

    Mon 05 May 2008 09:40:09 EDT

  4. Shannon Quinn makes this comment

    Hi there! I'll shoot you an email really soon; I'd love to coordinate our efforts on social networking integration...and pick your brain to glean whatever knowledge and wisdom I can. :)

    Tue 13 May 2008 21:50:15 EDT

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