There will be another Google Summer of Code in 2007, and Google has put up a poster for everyone (that's you!) to print and hang, so that we can attract people to get into OpenSource (that's your friends, and you :). From the poster: ``Last year Google spent $3,000,000 to fund 630 student projects across 90 countries with the help of over 100 mentoring organizations. Google Summer of CodeTM is back again in 2007! Google Summer of CodeTM is expressly designed to get the brightest minds on campus contributing code to open source initiatives and inventing new open source programs. After all, while altruistic motives are praiseworthy and the rewards of peer recognition sweet, the idea of a financial prize for stellar work predates the Nobel Commission and who really needs money more than broke college students?

Visit code.google.com/soc/ to learn more and submit your idea for a project. The deadline for student applications is March 24, 2007.''

I'm not trying to do much for GSoC 2007, someone else will do most of the work. :) We're still assembling suggestions for projects, but I think it's fine if you already start thinking about and discussing your proposals on the tech-* mailing lists. When you eventually submit your paper, please don't forget to have a look at our guidelines to make things easier for you to sort out.

Update: I linked to the wrong projects page: there's a separate NetBSD Summer-of-Code Projects page with suggestions that are more likely to be doable within the SoC timeframe. But of course that should not stop anyone from doing the other projects, too, either within SoC our outside. :)

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