Love databases? I do too. I’ve always loved working with structured data, and that passion led me to develop a smart, dynamic way to migrate content from WordPress to Joomla. No scripts, fewer hardcoded hacks - a clean model and maintainable design.
When I first read about the GSoC 2025 AI Framework project, I was intrigued but completely unprepared. My background was in machine learning and deep learning- totally different beasts from AI API integration. I had zero experience with APIs, no clue about AI integration in websites, and honestly, no idea how to even start. But curiosity won. I had seen other CMS platforms embracing AI capabilities and wondered: why not Joomla? AI is what everyone is seeking right now, and Joomla! could take a significant step forward by integrating AI into its platform.
When a core component like Weblinks was decoupled, it created a maintenance challenge. My Google Summer of Code project had a clear mission: bring this useful extension up to modern Joomla 5 standards, not just for end-users, but as a public example of high-quality development and testing practices.
Introduction of our four contributors and their projects for Google Summer of Code 2025.
Over the years, Joomla has participated a number of times in Google Summer of Code, an initiative that empowers students to learn a lot about software development by contributing to open source projects. GSoC has shown us more than once how valuable students can be for Joomla. So what would be more logical than creating our own breeding ground? JCM interviews Philip Walton, the man with the plan. Read all about the brand new Joomla Academy!
Joomla has been fortunate to benefit from the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and other events over the past few years. Often, from these projects Joomla's core features are improved, and the members of the teams that work on these features go on to become pillars of the community. But is it now time for us to think about launching our own program alongside these and bring stability to the cycle of development?
Joomla did it for the 14th time! We are proud to announce that our application as a mentoring organisation for the 2022 Google Summer of Code™ program (GSoC) has been accepted with our individual entry here!
It is this time of the year! The Joomla Project will apply to Google to participate in this year’s Google Summer of Code™ (GSoC) program.
Now, we need help from our community and beyond! We are looking for talented individuals who are willing to work with new contributors and guide them.
GSoC 2021 Candidates were announced by Google on Monday 17th May 2021.
The mission: Recruit about 20 mentors to help guide four students through four projects that will ideally be integrated into future releases of Joomla 4.
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