Google is excited to announce Google Summer of Code(TM) 2008! Google Summer of Code is a program designed to encourage student participation in open source development and offers these developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be working with several open source, free software and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period.

Historically, the program has brought together over 1,500 students around the globe with over 130 open source projects, to create millions of lines of code. We are contacting you to invite your students and encourage them to apply and participate!

Here at Google, we want to inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development. Google Summer of Code provides opportunities for students in Computer Science and related fields to work on projects related to their academic pursuits. We will be accepting student applications from March 24 - March 31, 2008.

For more information on Google Summer of Code 2008 and how to apply, please visit: http://code.google.com/soc/

For those with further questions, email: google-summer-of-code-discuss AT googlegroups DOT com