Drupal is excited to announce that we have 18 amazing projects in this year's Google Summer of Code. This is the fifth year that Drupal has participated in the program, bringing the total investment made by Google in Drupal through the SoC to over $400,000. 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.

As usual we had way more great proposals than we had slots, but for the first time we have a father-son team (Jim and Jimmy Berry) working on SoC projects! Jimmy Berry actually convinced his dad to apply. We always try and expand the Drupal family/community with each Summer of Code, but the variety in projects and students of this year takes it to a whole new level!

This year's Summer of Code projects focus on integrating Drupal with other APIs, improving and enhancing many module suites, and helping to build new functionalities that will help keep Drupal at the cutting edge of what's possible with a CMS. Most 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 me in thanking Google for their support of Drupal and all Free & Open Source Software projects, and please welcome our Summer of Code 2009 Students.

Application
Student
Experience w/ Drupal
Primary mentor
Automatic and Manual Conflict Resolver (discussion)
Christopher Bradford (bradfordcp)
Successful Summer of Code 2007 Student. Author of the BitTorrent module.
Karoly Negyesi (chx)
Peer review platform on Drupal forum (discussion)
Dario Battista Ghilardi(ingo86)
Security scanner component for SimpleTest module
Greg Knaddison(greggles)
Boost Drupal Media Module Development (discussion)
Jon Stacey(jmstacey)
NEW Contributor
Aaron Winborn(aaron)
Drupal-Gapps : Google Apps User Account management Framework (discussion)
Ankur Saxena(flyankur)
NEW Contributor
Kaustubh Srikanth(houndbee)
Usability Testing Suite(discussion)
Jimmy Berry(boombatower)
Project Issue File Review, SimpleTest, Usability Testing Suite, and many, many, more contributions!
Bojhan Somers(Bojhan)
Porting Biblio to CCK (discussion)
Kornél Lugosi (Coornail)
NEW Contributor
Kristof Van Tomme (kvantomme)
Making Drupal Smart: The Recommender Bundle (discussion)
Daniel Zhou (danithaca)
Author of Conversation Pivots, Pivots Extra, and Recommendor API modules.
Owen Barton(grugnog2)
Completion of Version Control Integration and Deployment to Drupal.org (discussion)
Daniel Hackney(chrono325)
NEW Contributor
Tony Narlock(skiquel)
Adding RDF Support to the ApacheSolr module (discussion)
Thomas Seidl (drunken monkey)
Helps maintain the Apache Solr module
Robert Douglass (robertDouglass)
Drupal Social Network Framework (discussion)
James An (JamesAn)
NEW Contributor
laknath semage (buddhika)
Google Analytics API Integration (discussion)
Joel Kitching (linolium)
NEW Contributor
Dmitri Gaskin (dmitrig01)
Rules Module extension und perfection (a.k.a. Rules monkey) (discussion)
Klaus Purer (klausi)
NEW Contributor
wolfgang ziegler (fago)
Overhauling the Vote Up/Down module (discussion)
Pratul Kalia (lut4rp)
Author of the Vote Up/Down and Cumulus modules
Simon Roberts (lyricnz)
Version Control API and family changes (discussion)
marco antonio villegas vega (marvil07)
Has contributed to a number of modules.
jakob petsovits (jpetso)
RRD Tool style statistics for Drupal/SQL (community analytics) (discussion)
Michael Prasuhn (Mikey_P)
Has contributed to a number of modules
Damien Tournoud (Damien Tournoud)
Enhancing Drupal Quiz Module (discussion)
Sivaji Ganesh (sivaji)
NEW Contributor
Matt Butcher (mbutcher)
Bot module extensions and documentation (discussion)
Balazs Dianiska (snufkin)
Author of the Drawing API & Comment Edited modules
Kevin Hemenway (Morbus Iff)
Coder Upgrade (discussion)
Jim Berry (solotandem)
Author of Deadwood module.
Robert Wohleb (rwohleb)