Drupal Media in GSoC 2015Drupal Media has benefited from Google Summer of Code in the past. Last year one project under Drupal was directly a part of the Media Initiative - Entity Embed module for Drupal 8. I was that lucky student who got this wonderful opportunity to work under...

Google Summer of Code 2015 is approaching and few people started asking me about how to get selected in GSoC 2015 and where to start. So I though to go ahead and write a blog post so that others can also benefit. This post targets students who have never participated...

Google Code-In (GCI) just started. For those of you who are not aware of this program, its a contest where students (ages 13-17) work on tasks for Drupal (and other open source open source organizations). In case you want to get involved with GCI, join #drupal-google on Freenode and we’ll...

I was very lucky to be provided with wonderful opportunity of attending GSoC 2014 Reunion Summit as a Drupal delegate. The event was celebration of ten-year anniversary of Google Summer of Code program. It was an amazing event and also my first trip to the states. I had very high...

GSoC 2014 is over and it was a great summer for me. As a student, I lead the development of Entity Embed module for Drupal 8. I learnt a lot about Drupal 8 and the core values of Drupal community. Apart from working on my project, I also got involved...

Midterm evaluations for GSoC are over and I’ve released a short demo for the entity embed module: Introducing Entity Embed module for Drupal 8. This screencast explains the basic idea behind the module and its usage. It’s also time for the status update of what I’ve been doing for past...

This post was supposed to come last week, but things got delayed. But here we are and after three weeks of GSoC, Entity Embed module is shaping up pretty good. A lot of interesting things happened last week. To begin with now the module is integrated with CKEditor and the...

I’m about to complete four weeks with my GSoC project and its been a great experience. I’m working on the Entity Embed module for Drupal 8. Dave Reid (davereid), Janez Urevc (slashrsm) and Shashwat Srivastava (darklrd) are my mentors for this project and all of them are extremely helpful. Besides...

Its roughly been a week since I’ve been working on Entity Embed module and about time I provide some updates. We’re off to a good start since the module is already functional. Though it still lacks a UI but its working fine in terms of embedding entities through text format....