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Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Program
Manager, Open Source

href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/" id="bt92" >Google Summer of
Code, our program to introduce students to open source software
development is coming back. In the past href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/three-summers-of-open-source.html"
id="uv9q" >three years, we've seen more than 1500 students
'graduate' from this program, working with 2000 mentors
across 90 countries to produce millions of lines of code. We're
pleased to have funded more than $10M in open source development
through Summer of Code, and we've increased our funding for it
this year by another $1M.

Last year alone, more than 800 students successfully completed
their projects. Each received $4500 as a stipend and an awesome

href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2327/2043654975_2ca729fc9d.jpg"
id="gr3." >T-shirt. We're looking forward to welcoming even
more student participants and open source projects into the Google
Summer of Code community this year.

We're accepting applications from open source projects
who'd like to act as mentoring organizations through March
13th, and will begin taking student applications on March 24th. If
you're interested in learning more, just subscribe to the

href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss"
id="r:gc" >program discussion list. We hope to see you
there!

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