Ahh, just beat me to it :-)

They're not taking applications yet, and the #summer-discuss IRC channel is inexplicably hosted on SlashNET, but that's extremely cool. Congrats to Brion and everyone working on this... last year, Google sponsored an average of 10 students per project/org on their list.

Huzzah!, SJ

* likewise Creative Commons, One Laptop Per Child (which is doing cool things with wikis and wants to fit Wikimedia content on its laptops), and Xiph.org, which is moving closer to providing a truly robust free audio and video toolchain. A reason to smile... :-)

On 4/23/06, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

after wandering through the archive of those lists, it seems that nobody has yet mentioned that Wikimedia was accepted as a mentoring organisation for the Google Summer of Code 2006.

http://code.google.com/soc/wikim/about.html

Students may apply for this in the first 8 days of May.

Please have a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2006 for suggestions regarding possible projects.

It would be a great opportunity for us, yadda yadda etc. please apply.

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