"Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced! We accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications. All the mentoring organizations that will participate in Google Summer of Code 2007 are listed. You can learn more about the accepted students and their projects by visiting each organization's 'about' page."
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I was looking at the results last night. I noticed that Google has accepted so many projects for FreeBSD more than the rest.
I really look forward to seeing some decent results just like last SoC.
It will give (the already accelerating)FreeBSD 7 another boost!
I am just so eager to use that release!
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I'm a little curious as to what you would have found interesting. With so many different projects involved it seems to me like just about every type of project was covered (don't forget most projects allow you to submit your own ideas, not just use theirs). If you can't find anything at all interesting here, maybe you chose the wrong major to go into?
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Your own ideas are probably less likely to be selected, since someone in the project has to agree to be a mentor and the pre-approved ideas already have someone backing them. But they're certainly happy to hear new ideas and if you submit one that's good enough they'll run with it.
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Your own ideas are probably less likely to be selected, since someone in the project has to agree to be a mentor and the pre-approved ideas already have someone backing them
Not necessarily.
Sure, some of the ideas mentoring project list on their sites at the beginning of the application phase are kind of "really want have" stuff, i.e. code that needs to be done but none of the core contributors have time to do.
However, quite some ideas are usually things the projects consider as "nice to have" or "nice test case for our technology" (if the project is providing infrastructure of some sort).
And ideas which are not on the list are quite likely to get a high rating in this second group, because often developers of the project are too close to some core issues to immediately come up with something a person who is seeing the big picture might have come up with.
Especially for mentoring organisation with a high number of available slots a novel idea will quite likely draw attention, certainly more than the tenth application for the same "official" idea.
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No interesting project?
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Please, show us the light, oh! guru! emir of the wiseness!
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All the projects have a high complexity and they will contribute a lot to improve the state of the free software.
Maybe they are very simple to you, but, if you think so; why do not "spend" some of your very worthful time, improve with no effort at all some open source project and win some money, maybe for waste it on your weekend?
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High-five! 
I hereby promise to do my best to deliver the Haiku project a very high-quality thread scheduler. Enough lurking on the background, I didn't take a 4 year Computer Science course for nothing 
Cheers!
Edit: GOD DAMN YOU, PHP. The subject line was meant to read "\o 8 for Haiku", as in returning mmu_man's high-five.
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Emancipation of the final bit of closed source code would really push development forward of OpenSolaris - sure, drivers are one of those 'iffy' things that can be provided by a seperate download, but replacing the core parts that are closed source would help alot of parties.
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With all of those projects, you could've applied for everything in between driver development (for example, Xorg -> nouveau), library development (boost), language bindings, test systems and GUI frontends.
I'm eager to see what gets done, as there are many very promising projects. But I also have to finish my own one now :-).
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Once again Google is doing it. Instead of wasting these millions on paper ads, they build good will this way. It's just so brilliant. Wonder how many other companies that could benefit from similar action.
Looking through the project list (ehrm, those of interest to me) I can notice that there is plenty of good gonna happen this summer. Only thing I miss would be in the OOo section having something like "Looking over codebase and making it efficient". ONe can dream I guess ;P
Anyway, I'd like to just take the time to give a silent minute for the great opportunities google offers, and frankly, I'm even gonna have a couple of beers tonight celebrating Google.
While at it, congrats all 900 of you who get paid to make the difference =)
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I have to ask: whose idea was it to abbreviate "Mozilla Foundation" to "mofo"? 
http://code.google.com/soc/mofo/about.html