Google Summer of Code As many of you will already know, Google is running its "Summer of Code" project again this year, and haskell.org is once again going to apply to be a mentoring organisation. Are you a student who would like to earn money for hacking in Haskell? Or are you a non-student who has a cool idea for a coding project but no time to do it yourself? Well, our wiki to gather ideas is now up-and-running again: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code Add yourself to the list of interested people! There are some ideas still there from last year. Add new ones! Google will start accepting student applications in just over a week's time, but now is the time to start using our own wiki to match up interesting ideas with interested people. The official timeline is as follows: March 12: Mentoring organization application deadline March 14: List of accepted mentoring organizations published March 14: Student application period opens March 24: Student application deadline Interim Period: we review and rank student proposals April 9: List of accepted student applications published Interim Period: Students learn more about their project communities May 28: Students begin coding; Google begins issuing initial payments July 9: Students upload code to code.google.com/hosting; July 16: Google begins issuing mid-term payments August 20: Students upload code to code.google.com/hosting; August 31: Final evaluation deadline; Google begins issuing final payments Regards, Malcolm