It is that time of year again. The Google Summer of Code is upon us! *Sign Up Information* If you are a student and want to sign up to make $5,000 for hacking on the code you love over the summer or are willing to help out as a mentor, now is the time to act. Please sign up by adding your name to the list at: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/wiki/People2011 Our main wiki entry for the Summer of Code 2010 is now online: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/wiki/Soc2011 If you are interested in applying as a student, here are some guidelines: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/wiki/StudApply2011 The official deadline for student applications with Google is April 8th, but if you are interested please add your name to the People2010 page above, as soon as possible. *Interested in helping out, but not sure how? * There are a number of ideas that we've been collecting for projects available through the trac http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/report/1 and which have been collecting over time in a reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/top/ http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell_proposals/top/Unfortunately, reddit doesn't let you comment on topics after they become archived, and most of the topics in the haskell_proposals reddit have been. While the reddit is a great place to discuss proposals, we had to choose one mechanism to supply Google with our ideas officially, so please submit proposals http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/newticket to the trac once you have hashed out something you like to work on, or which would be an appropriately beneficial project for a summer worth of work. *Helping Out Darcs * Haskell.org http://haskell.org/ is going to continue to act as an umbrella organization covering darcs http://darcs.net/ for the Summer of Code once more. If you are interested in helping them out, they also have a page full of project ideas as well: http://wiki.darcs.net/GoogleSummerOfCode Again, please submit proposalshttp://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/newticket as tickets to the trac if you can think of something you'd like to work on. *More Information* Here are a bunch of relevant links that may be able to answer your questions: Google's Summer of Code Homepage http://socghop.appspot.com/ Google's Summer of Code 2011 FAQhttp://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/faqs Google's Summer of Code 2011 Timelinehttp://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeli... Google's Summer of Code Wiki Knowledge Basehttp://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/WikiStart Of course, you can always feel free to email me or inquire on irc.freenode.net #haskell-soc or with the darcs folks over on #darcs for more information. If you don't have an IRC client, you can get there from: http://webchat.freenode.net Thank you all very much and we look forward to another successful Summer of Code! -Edward Kmett