I'm pleased to report that GCC was once again accepted as a supported project for Google's Summer of Code program. Summer of Code is a program sponsored by Google in which students are paid to contribute to open source projects. This will be GCC's fourth year of participation. For more information, see http://code.google.com/soc/ .
Student applications will be accepted from March 23 to April 3. Each student will work with a mentor from the project. As we've done in past years, we need to have a set of mentors who are prepared to work with students. I would like to encourage any interested experienced GCC developer to become a mentor for the project. Being a mentor does not require that you actually work with a student: we normally have many more available mentors than we do students. All mentor volunteers (and only mentor volunteers) will be able to see and vote on all student project proposals. As in the past, I will accept as a mentor anybody who is listed as a maintainer of some part of gcc in the MAINTAINERS file. If you are not a maintainer but still want to be a mentor, I'm open to being convinced. The web application is different this year. In order to become a mentor, you need to go http://socghop.appspot.com/ and create an account. Then click on "Apply to become a mentor" over on the left and select the GCC project. Thanks. Ian
