I am pleased to announce that haskell.org has once again been accepted as a mentoring organisation, for the 2009 Google Summer of Code. Student applications open on Monday (23rd March) at 1900 UTC, for a period of 12 days (until Fri 3rd April, also at 1900 UTC). Students applicants are encouraged to interact with the community via mailing lists, prior, during, and after the submission of their ideas for projects. In general terms, project ideas that benefit the whole community (e.g. infrastructure like ghc, cabal, libraries) will be preferred over things of more marginal interest (e.g. games). Unless you make a _really_ good case, of course! Because (sadly) the darcs community did not get accepted as a separate organisation this year, haskell.org will be willing to accept proposals relating to darcs (as it has done in previous years), but of course they will be competing in the general pool, alongside all the other ideas. Also, we are still accepting mentors. Regards, Malcolm