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For the Drupal community's participation in the 2007 Google Summer of Code program, Google donated $10,000 USD to the Drupal Association earlier this week. This amount represents 10% of the $100,000 USD allocated to Drupal's Summer of Code students. We'd like to sincerely thank Google for this tremendous contribution, which will be used to fund infrastructure improvements and to sponsor Drupal events (among other things). We'd also like to thank Drupal's extensive mentoring team for helping to make this possible.

Google Summer of Code is a program which awards stipends to students who successfully complete an open source coding project. Students from around the world apply to Google-selected "mentoring organizations" (open source projects, Universities, and so on) to work either on projects of their own devising or to implement projects set out by each organization. The top applicants are allocated $5,000 each, of which $4,500 goes to the student upon successful completion of their project, and $500 goes to the mentoring organization. A designated mentor from the mentoring organization helps to advise the student during the course of their project.

This year, Drupal was awarded 20 student slots, which resulted in a number of new contributors and awesome projects, including several internationalization improvements in Drupal 6. Many of our 2006 and 2005 Summer of Code alumni helped out this year as mentors, or even as return students for a second round! We'll be ramping up efforts soon to make Summer of Code 2008 the biggest and best yet! :) If you're interested in helping out, leave a comment at http://groups.drupal.org/node/7157.

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VM’s picture

congrats to all involved!

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caetemh’s picture

Nice, congrats all, =D

JohnForsythe’s picture

It's great to see Google helping out. It's too bad I'm not a student anymore ;)

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brenda003’s picture

Go Google!

Toe’s picture

Nice, congrats all!

theborg’s picture

Congratulations!

Thanks webchick, Google and everyone involved. It looks like Drupal is building upon rock-solid "blocks".

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Sree’s picture

congracts!

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toma’s picture

Congratulations, and Thanks Google to support drupal and students
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alexrayu’s picture

Blessed are the students.
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Info4BeingRich’s picture

It has been so nice of Google to put such a big amount of money in charity for the community. Congrats! Keep it up!!

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sumit270’s picture

Yeah... I am really happy for you guys. Really love this.. i hope it gets even betters
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