Attention all students: you can now submit your applications to Google's Summer of Code program for 2007. There is a huge list of open source programs that are mentoring students this year, and Drupal is one of them. Google pays each successful student $4,500 USD and the Drupal Association gets $500 per student as well. Drupal treats its students well, each of whom will be assigned two mentors to work with. In addition, each student will have their own group on groups.drupal.org, plus lots of exposure during and after the project. For many students, participating in GSoC is the beginning of their career as a professional Drupal developer or consultant.

Please read Drupal's page on Summer of Code 2007, our advice on writing GSoC applications, and the list of proposed projects. There is a group for general GSoC 2007 discussions where you can make contact with mentors and other prospective students, and there is also #drupal-soc on irc.freenode.net where you can usually chat with mentors and students.

Applications must be submitted by March 24.