The Google Summer of Code applications period is open now, for both Sugar Labs <http://socghop.appspot.com/org/show/google/gsoc2009/sugarlabs> and other participating organizations<http://socghop.appspot.com/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2009>, and runs until 3 April at 19:00 UTC. We have had a fair number of interested students in IRC and on the mailing lists, and last I checked we had 4 generally strong applications in the wiki category<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:2009_GSoC_applications>. However, we have over 13 mentors signed up;* the more applications we get, the more slots we will be assigned*; and there are no applications yet in some of our important project ideas<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/ProjectIdeas>. So please, use your blogs, your tweets, and even your actual mouth, to promote GSoC and encourage more high-quality students (at any level, as long as they're 18 or over) to apply; and of course, feel free to apply yourself. The sooner you start to apply, the more time you'll have to refine your idea. The steps to apply are:
1. write out an idea in the wiki category<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:2009_GSoC_applications> 2. get comments on that idea by discussing it on these mailing lists and/or IRC 3. repeat steps 1 and 2 to refine your idea as many times as possible 4. sign up on google's webapp <http://socghop.appspot.com/> and submit your application to sugarlabs there, preferably by April 1 5. You can continue to refine your idea until the deadline on April 3. Cheers, Jameson Quinn
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