Since some of you don't keep an eye on the front page of
drupal.org,
I'll repeat the salient points of http://drupal.org/node/
235590 here:
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is ramping up fast. For those
who don't
know, GSoC is where Google pays students $4,500 over the
summer to work
on open source projects, one of which is Drupal.  GSoC has
resulted in
fantastic code for Drupal, as well as fantastic long-term
contributors.
In order to make GSoC a success again this year, *we need
your help*!
MENTORS: If you know your way around Drupal coding, and
you'll have some
availability over the summer (May 26 - August 18), then
you'd be in a
great position to be a mentor. Mentors are assigned in pairs
to students
and act as resources to help scope the projects, be there
for
implementation questions, etc. Ever wish you could clone
yourself so you
could work on the cool Drupal stuff you want to do? Help a
student do
cool Drupal stuff!
Sign up at:
- http://grou
ps.drupal.org/soc-2008-mentors and
- http
://code.google.com/soc/2008/mentor_home.html
IDEALISTS: If you have big ideas about where Drupal could be
headed, and
can spec them out to a level that other people can
understand what they
are ;) then we could use your help in fleshing out our ideas
list 
http://drupal.org/google-summer-of-code/2008/ideas-list.
Projects need
to keep someone busy for 2.5 months, and need to be
something that won't
already be done by May. ;) We need to get our project ideas
list
finalized *no later than March 24*, so time is of the
essence here.
REVIEWERS: Probably *the biggest bottleneck we have right
now* is around
the list of proposals at http://groups.drup
al.org/soc-2008. We need an
army of Drupal folks to take the good community-submitted
proposals and
move them over to our official ideas list, and to provide
feedback and
advice to the student-submitted proposals.
WELCOME WAGON: Don't feel like you have the technical
expertise to be a
mentor or won't have time over the summer to commit? You can
*still*
help by being on the lookout in #drupal for potential GSoC
students and
helping to point them towards handbook pages, API
documentation,
contributed modules, and other resources that can help them
spec out
their projects.
Thanks a lot everyone, and here's to a rockin' summer!
-Angie
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