# RadiantCMS for students **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [March 3, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiantcms-for-students/130784 "2008-03-03T10:41:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Aaron_F)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiantcms-for-students/130784/1 "2008-03-03T10:41:51Z")
Next weekend I’ll be in Guangzhou China helping to run the Asia Open Source Symposium Code Fest. Right now I’m trying to figure out what to do with the 50 some university students who are supposed to show up. The idea is to help them learn about how open source works, so I’ve thought about having them submit patches, plugins and extensions to a number of open source projects. With that in mind, I’ve got a short list of extensions I was thinking of working with students to build over two days. Contenders include: - Radiant ATOM-PUB implementation - A “site-members” extension - Radiant wiki extension - An extension for adding arbitrary fields to pages (like meta, but without having to write code) Any other thoughts? Any low hanging fruit in the core of radiant I could task some students with? No guarentees on how this will work out, but I’d like any feedback you have. – J Aaron F. [jadetower.com](http://jadetower.com) [US] +1 724-964-4515 馮傑仁 [cubiclemuses.com](http://cubiclemuses.com) [HK] +852 8123-7905 ---
**Author:** ![J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Aaron_F)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiantcms-for-students/130784/2 "2008-03-03T16:31:50Z")
Wow, what a great idea! Personally, I would love it if you could work with them on the Comments extension. I’m deciding whether I want to make my blog with Typo or Radiant right now. I’d prefer Radiant, but comments are most certainly necessary for full blog functionality. ---
**Author:** ![J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Aaron_F)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 9:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiantcms-for-students/130784/3 "2008-03-05T09:38:56Z")
Ben M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > Wow, what a great idea! > > Personally, I would love it if you could work with them on the Comments > extension. I’m deciding whether I want to make my blog with Typo or > Radiant right now. I’d prefer Radiant, but comments are most certainly > necessary for full blog functionality. Yeah, I’ve thought about that one too. We’ll see what the students want to do. – J Aaron F. [jadetower.com](http://jadetower.com) [US] +1 724-964-4515 馮傑仁 [cubiclemuses.com](http://cubiclemuses.com) [HK] +852 8123-7905 ---
**Author:** ![J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Aaron_F)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiantcms-for-students/130784/4 "2008-03-05T17:25:38Z")
What about some kind of of statistics extension? It would be very useful to display the Most Popular pages (or articles) in the sidebar. And, if you and the students work on a comments extension, it would also be useful to know the Most Commented pages. ---
**Author:** ![J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Aaron_F)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiantcms-for-students/130784/5 "2008-03-05T17:55:04Z")
J Aaron F. wrote: > - An extension for adding arbitrary fields to pages (like meta, but > without having to write code) This one sounds really helpful to me. - Dave ---
**Author:** ![J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Aaron_F)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiantcms-for-students/130784/6 "2008-03-10T16:39:16Z")
J Aaron F. wrote: > David P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > > > J Aaron F. wrote: > > > > > - An extension for adding arbitrary fields to pages (like meta, but > > > without having to write code) > > > > This one sounds really helpful to me. > > Well, this is the one we’re working on. We’ll see what we have > tomorrow. > > Definitely learned some lessons today. Very cool! I’m interested to learn how the whole process went for you and your students. ---
**Author:** ![J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@J\_Aaron\_F](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/J_Aaron_F)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radiantcms-for-students/130784/7 "2008-03-08T13:51:36Z")
David P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > J Aaron F. wrote: > > > - An extension for adding arbitrary fields to pages (like meta, but > > without having to write code) > > This one sounds really helpful to me. Well, this is the one we’re working on. We’ll see what we have tomorrow. I also tried to get a group working on fixing the comment plugin, but it was a little too tricky I think. Definitely learned some lessons today. – J Aaron F. [jadetower.com](http://jadetower.com) [US] +1 724-964-4515 馮傑仁 [cubiclemuses.com](http://cubiclemuses.com) [HK] +852 8123-7905