The Perl Foundation is participating in Google's 2008 Summer of Code. http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
This means Google will give "successful student contributors a 4500 USD stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for three months." "In order to participate in the program, you must be a student. [...] enrolled in or accepted into an accredited institution including (but not necessarily limited to) colleges, universities, masters programs, PhD programs and undergraduate programs" There's a page of key information and suggested Perl-related projects at http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects Naturally I'm hoping to find someone interested in helping with a DBI-specific project: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects#common_test_suite_for_dbi_and_drivers but there are plenty of other interesting and useful projects. Tim.