As blogged before, Debian is in the Google Summer of Code 2008

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So far, we have rather few applications - much less than last year. This doesn’t seem specific to Debian, other organizations have also been reporting fewer applications, and Google is considering a deadline extension. Maybe the low number is related to Easter holidays. Also at least at my university the summer term will start only on April 1st, just past the deadline. So many students probably are still away in holiday.

Anyway: if you are interested in participating in the Google Summer of Code, chances are still pretty good. We don’t have too many applications yet; not even all of the projects on the Wiki Ideas page have received a submission yet, only a few have received more than one; and even with those a well-written submission standas a good chance. Also some new ideas have been added in the meantime.

In particular missing from our submissions list are:

  • MergeMaster port
  • debexpo
  • CDD webtools
  • security policy

(see the Wiki page for details on these projects).

Especially the lack of a submission for the MergeMaster port is surprising. Many people would love to see a good configuration file merging tool in Debian. I can only guess that people are thinking “awh, everybody is going to submit an application for this one, I don’t have a chance here”. You currenlty DO have a chance, because there is no single proposal in for this one yet!

If you have any questions, IRC channel #debian-soc in OFTC is pretty useful.