On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Noah Salzman wrote:
I can volunteer to be the liaison between the "summer of code" coders and Wikimedia... but I would need someone from Wikimedia to contact me. In 2007 the mentoring organizations had to submit their applications between March 5 and 12th so we would want to get moving sooner than later.
Looks like Wikimedia participated in 2006 and 2007: http://code.google.com/soc/2006/wikim/about.html http://code.google.com/soc/2007/wikimedia/about.html
All three students (2 in 2006, and 1 in 2007) were mentored by Brion Vibber who is the release manager for MediaWiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brion_Vibber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brion_VIBBER
I bet he would know what the plan is for 2008. Typically, mentoring students is a challenge, so the more mentors Wikimedia has, the more student projects we can attract (and have Google sponsor).
ivan.