Google Summer of Code 2009

Google just pre-announced that Summer of Code 2009 will run. Its going to be a bit smaller than last year's program due to the poor worldwide economic climate, but the open source community is quite fortunate that Google is footing the bill for yet another summer of students hacking on open source projects.

Given our success last year, I think we should try applying again this year as a mentoring organization. I've started to put the wiki pages together by cloning last year's stuff:

  Organization application:
    http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2009Application

  Organization ideas page:
    http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/SoC2009Ideas

FWIW, the folks who organize GSoC thought our ideas page is among the better ones they've seen year-after-year. So I'm largely keeping the same format. :-)

The application answers really need to be reworked; we need to address our 2008 results in these parts.

The ideas box is once again open for suggestions. Please start proposing student projects, and possible mentors.

Since the program is smaller, there is a chance we won't be accepted this year due to space constraints. But I think its still worthwhile to prepare everything and hope for the best. And before you can ask, no, my employee status with OSPO doesn't improve our odds for acceptance. :-)