Google has decided to return with their Summer of Code program for 2009. We can expect the program to be a bit smaller in size, making the student competition part more important. When we have an influx of great students and ideas, our mentors can collaborate to make very strong proposals. Strong proposals get us the most student slots. This last year we did a modest increase in our noisiness (marketing) about the Summer of Code. The results were pretty good[1]. Compared to 2007, our best year to that point, we had three times the number of mentors step forward, three times the proposals, and more than twice the number of student slots. Imagine how it could be if more people than just me were promoting Fedora and JBoss.org's presence in the Summer of Code? Do you have any interest in: * Planning a Summer of Code promotion for Fedora/JBoss.org * Running the promotion You may wonder, why JBoss.org? Mainly that I don't think Google is going to separate the organizations this year; with slim participation available, they are going to be looking for any ways to consolidate further. I don't know who from JBoss.org is interested in planning and promoting this. However, the situation makes us dependent on each other and the quality of projects. Fortunately, this situation worked out rather well last year. More information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Summer_coding Thanks - Karsten [1] http://iquaid.org/2008/04/21/gsoc-statistics-snapshot/ -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41