The Google Summer of Code 2009 has begun - at least for the organizations: Until March 13th we have time to apply and we will apply. Simon is already working our the application.
If you don't know what th e Google Summer of Code is, you should check out Philip Johnson's introduction at youtube.com [3]. I met Philip in Mountain View at last year's mentor summit and he is really a nice guy and he seems to be a really good teacher. He does a great job of explaining Summer of Code.
So, if you are a student as of April 2009 and older than 18 and interested in at once getting into open source development and making 4500,- USD by the end of the summer, you should take a look at our list of project ideas [4]. If you are interested in one of them, you can already get in touch with me (steffen@zikula.org) - although we can't promise to be accepted by Google it's good to start as soon as possible discussing the details of a project so you can put together a really good application.
i m a bit curious about this google summer of code, not about the project in themself, but more about the organisation ?
for instance, what happened when a project is not finished ? does google staff say they won't pay for it ?
for projects which were developped last year, and especially the search module, will it be merge with the new search module ?