Google has announced its annual Summer of Code program (GSoC). The concept is to provide a venue for involving students interested in gaining code development experience in a structured, mentored, directed, real-life (and useful) program. Students sign up, develop proposals for projects, are assigned mentors, and work through summer developing software. Google sponsors the program and provides funding to assist with the project development.

I will be serving as a mentor for GSoC this year, specifically working with some students looking to create a series of Joomla! modules that display various pieces of CiviCRM information. The full list of proposed projects can be found here. The mentors will be reviewing and scoring the proposed projects over the next couple weeks, so we don't yet know exactly what will be accepted and funded yet. There are currently two CiviCRM projects proposed.

I'll provide further updates as the process continues.