[dot] Summer of Code 2006: The Contestents Are At The Starting Line!

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From: Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>
Dept: KDE-SoC
Date: Wednesday 24/May/2006, @17:13

Summer of Code 2006: The Contestents Are At The Starting Line!
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     KDE is happy to announce the selection of 24 student applications
[http://developer.kde.org/summerofcode/soc2006.html] for the Google
Summer of Code 2006 [http://code.google.com/soc/]. This year, Google
received a total of 6400 applications worldwide spread across 102
different Open Source organisations. "It looks like we've got some very
interesting projects for KDE as a whole, and a good number of projects
for KOffice", said Boudewijn Rempt, the maintainer for Krita,
celebrating the selection of 4 KOffice student proposals. "We spent over
3 hours debating the final list of projects on Sunday evening, but we're
confident our selection is solid", commented Cornelius Schumacher, the
KDE e.V. vice-president who will act as a mentor for one of the 3 KDE
PIM projects. The list is completed by 3 KDevelop projects, 2 Kopete
ones, one for KHTML/KJS and 11 others in various areas of KDE.

     The full list of selected applications is available in the KDE
Summer of Code [http://developer.kde.org/summerofcode/soc2006.html]
website. Some of the students in that list have reported they have
already started working on their projects - and some who did not get
selected have also said they will work on their ideas regardless of the
outcome.