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Google summer of code 2016 started with a full swing this week. Vijay is one of the students participating in it. He is working on the Media module for Drupal 8.

He wrote an introduction blog post. I'd like to invite you to read it, say hi and follow his work as it progresses through the summer.

Welcome in the Drupal community Vijay!

More than two years ago I gave a session about the future of media at DrupalCon Prague. The outcome of that session was a planning sprint that happened two days after it. One of the ideas that was born on that sprint was Media entity, storage layer for media-related information built with simplicity and support for remotely hosted media in mind.

Approximately 3 and a half years ago I was finishing my job at Delo. I gave my notice in two months before, but I still had two more months to go. Yes, my notice period was 4 months (please learn from my mistake and never agree on something like that)! I was planning to take a break, travel Asia for few months, spend more time with my family and life to be easy and relaxing for some time. As you will see things didn't really work out that way...

Image effects is a new module for Drupal 8 as it didn't exist in previous versions. It's purpose is to bring most of contributed image effects under one roof. This makes a lot of sense since it prevents fragmentation and makes effects easier to find.

Today I committed a configuration UI patch to the Entity browser module. This significantly improves experience for site builders. It is now possible to create, update and delete entity browsers without hacking yaml configuration files.

Configuration is available under Content authoring configuration:

Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a 3 month programming project during their break from school.

Media made a big leap towards a first major milestone. It's time to test what we have and help stabilise it.

After media sprint in Zurich, which happened in December, we didn't sleep. Together with the team at MD Systems we actively worked on parts of media ecosystem. Would you like to know what we achieved?

Drupal 8 was officially released last November. Since then I have planning to try to migrate my blog from previous version of this great CMS. Drupal 8 comes with many improvements and I definitely wanted to leverage those on my site as well.

Curious how it went? Read on...

Almost exactly two months ago MD Systems announced the Media initiative program that they initiated in cooperation with Ringier, Gassmann media and Südostschweiz. Initiative was kicked off with a week long sprint, which happened at first week of December in Zurich.

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