The Drupal community would like to congratulate 14 exceptional students who have been selected to write code with the financial support of Google. Each of these students have demonstrated a high level of ability, enthusiasm and understanding for the tasks they have chosen to work on. As they begin their work they will be assisted by a team of 36 experienced mentors. With the outstanding quality of the applications, and the large team of mentors who are available to assist, I can't help but think that 2006 will be the most exciting summer that Drupal has ever had!

Student Project Mentors
flk Views Scheduler Earl Miles, John VanDyk
Aron Novak Social Networking Analysis (SNA) Tool Károly Négyesi, Thomas Narres
Avi Mehta AJAX Form Creator Nedjo Rogers, Jeff Robbins
Daniel Gutekunst The ultimate LaTeX module Nicholas James Ivy, David Kent Norman
Ernest Delgado Collaborative Editor Vladimir Zlatanov, Matt Westgate
Jeremy Epstein Import / export API module Adriaan Rossouw, Sami Khan
Konstantin Käfer Administration usability improvements (pdf) Nick Lewis, Ruben D. Canlas Jr.
Lê Xuân Hùng Multi-site administration through rich XUL client Sugree Phatanapherom, Alan Evans
Phani K Arava ImageMagick Integration Stefan Nagtegaal, Heine Deelstra
Robert H Wohleb Assignment/Gradebook Bill Fitzgerald, Marc Poris
Rok Žlender Unit test automation Thomas Ilsche, Karoly Negyesi, Kieran Lal
Scott Reynolds Content Recommendation Engine Theodore Serbinski, Jeff Eaton
Sumit Datta GData module Mark Janssen, Fabiano Parolin Sant'Ana
Wolfgang Ziegler Node Profile Module and CCK Owen Barton, Khalid Baheyeldin

In addition to the assigned mentors listed above, Angela Byron and myself (Robert Douglass) will be on constant standby to assist students in any general or specific way that we can. Furthermore, the following community members have also expressed interest in helping out as mentors and should be considered a valuable resource for students seeking help:

Aaron Pava, Allie Micka, Amazon, arnabdotorg, Boris Mann, cryptonomikon, drewish, escape164, fax8, Flanker, geilhufe, gordon, GregoryHeller, grugnog, marcp, peterx, praseodym, puregin, sofiya, steve dondley, zacker