Drupal is excited to announce that we have 18 amazing projects in this year's Google Summer of Code. This is the sixth year that Drupal has participated in the program, bringing the total investment made by Google in Drupal through the SoC to over $450,000. This investment has resulted in numerous modules and core improvements, but more importantly it has brought in many long time contributors to the drupal project and helped keep numerous other contributors engaged and active in the community.

This year's Summer of Code projects focus on integrating Drupal with other APIs, improving and updating popular contributed modules, improving security, and helping to build new functionalities that will help keep Drupal at the cutting edge. Some of the projects still require co-mentors, and we'll be trying to connect these students with the community in a real world setting, so if you're interested in helping out with community bonding or code review, or even if you just want to keep tabs on the SoC progress, join us over at the Summer of Code group - it's not too late for you to help out!

Please help us in thanking Google for their support of Drupal and all Free & Open Source Software projects, and please welcome our Summer of Code 2010 Students.

Application
Student
Experience w/ Drupal
Primary mentor
Automated Security Reviews
Jim Berry (solotandem)
Summer of Code 2009 graduate, Grammar Parser module, Deadwood module, contributor to Coder module
Karoly Negyesi (chx)
Project Tools for Grassroots Activism
Jeremy Blanchard (auzigog)
NEW Contributor
Kaustubh Srikanth (houndbee)
Port QueryPath to D7 (discussion)
Emily Brand (ebrand)
Text Formatter module
Matt Butcher (mbutcher)
Data Visualization for RDF data (discussion)
Lin Clark (linclark)
Contributor to core RDF module
Laura Scott (lauras)
Bespin for Drupal - Integrated, Web-based, Collaborative Code Editor.
Tom Davidson (tomdavidson)
NEW Contributor
Susan Stewart (hedgemage)
Remote entities (discussion)
Tamas Demeter (yorirou)
Maintainer of several modules
Hugo Wetterberg (hugowetterberg)
Rules data transformation plugin (discussion)
Sebastian Gilits (sepgil)
Co-maintainer of Pageroute module
Wolfgang Ziegler (fago)
Integrating Views output into Feeds for further processing into Drupal (discussion)
Aditya Kristanto Goenawan (aditya_kristanto)
NEW Contributor
Daniel Wehner (dereine)
Date module Drupal 7 basic API rearchitecting (discussion)
David Goode (David Goode)
Maintainer or co-maintainer of several modules
Karen Stevenson (karens)
Facebook-style Micropublisher (FBSMP) (discussion)
Nitin Kumar Gupta (publicmind)
Facebook-style Links module
Isaac Sukin (IceCreamYou)
HTML5 Support for Drupal 7
Maulik Kamdar (maulik.kamdar)
NEW Contributor
Sumit Kataria (sumitk)
Auto Taxonomy Generation from Node-Content (discussion)
Tushar Mahajan (chia)
Sitestats, Buzzthis, and YahooMeme modules.
Thomas Narres (narres)
Optimize the performance of evaluation part of rule sets (discussion)
Saubhagya Maheshwari (Saubhagya)
NEW Contributor
Klaus Purer (klausi)
Creating a generic Search API (discussion)
Thomas Seidl (drunken monkey)
Helps maintain the Apache Solr module, 2009 Summer of Code graduate
Robert Douglass (robertDouglass)
Development of some functionalities of DXMPP Module (discussion)
Shashwat Srivastava (darklrd)
NEW Contributor
Aaron Winborn (aaron)
Drupal For All (discussion)
Edward Turpin (YaxBalamAhaw)
Co-maintainer of FeedField module
Everett Zufelt (Everett Zufelt)
Drupal Commerce Usability: Bulk Product Creation / Import Tools (discussion)
Leighton Whiting (wildkatana)
Click2Sell Suite module
Damien Tournoud (damz)
Affiliate module (with integration for Drupal Commerce)
Bojan Zivanovic (bojanz)
Ubercart Affiliate v2 module
Ryan Szrama (rszrama)
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