Magento Commerce strikes again! Winning another prestigious award, and announcing Magento Developer Challenge #1!
Aug 5, 2008 by Mircea Goia MyTestBox News
It seems the Magento e-commerce solution is unstoppable. Besides winning the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards Best New Project Magento just won another prize: the “Best of Open Source Enterprise Applications (E-Commerce)” at Infoworld’s annual BOSSIE Awards (this award “recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals, and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done”). The 2008 BOSSIE winners include 60 products in eight categories covering business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security, and storage.
Other projects selected by InfoWorld’s editorial and test center staff are dotProject (open source project and task manager), Alfresco (open source enterprise content management system), Pentaho (open-source provider of reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities), SugarCRM (open source commercial customer relationship management) and JasperReports (open source report-generating tool).
The company also announced the first of a series of challenges named Magento Developer Challenge (AKA HackGento). The goal is to develop Magento extensions with widespread usage in the community. They will present a challenge to the community every week: the first challenge is integrating Magento with Google Spreadsheet.
These are the details for the challenge #1 (from their blog ):
- Overview: Allow simple product management from Google Spreadsheet (GS) using the GS API
Prize: $300 Amazon gift certificate
Questions? Please post all questions in the Developer Challenge Forum
- Export
* Export user-selected (or all) simple products from Magento’s product grid directly into a GS doc and allow editing and adding of products in GS.
* The export should include the union of all attributes that the selected products are associated with.
Import
* Import all simple products from GS back into Magento while updating existing products and creating new products, if needed.
* Only attributes that are in the attribute set that a product belongs to will be saved. Any validation on the attribute level (e.g. required, decimal etc…) must be enforced before saving the product.
* Support for image management by specifying image name and type in GS and pulling the actual image from a specific location (e.g. /temp/) into Magento’s file structure.
* All values of simple products should be supported, including images, design, categories, related products, up-sales etc. Only custom options are excluded.
* When import is complete a report of all successful and rejected products should be presented to the user, with an appropriate reason(s) for rejection.
Configuration
Add a new configuration section under Catalog called Google Docs API to enter all required authentication values (token, etc.)
Requirements
* The solution must be developed and submitted as a Magento Extension compatible with Magento 1.1.x and higher.
* The extension must use Magento native functionality as much as possible.
* Extension should be packaged and uploaded in the appropriate forum thread. Varien staff will test and validate the extension in the order submitted.
* The solution’s asthetics must be compatible with the Magento Admin interface.
* The extension must be licensed under an OSI certified license (OSL, GPL, etc.)
* Once verified, the extension must be made available through Magento Connect to the public.
NOTE: they reserve the right to make changes at any time to the contest rules.
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