Friends, thinkers, countrymen, "Google Summer of Code 2008 is on! Over the past three years, the program has brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. We look forward to welcoming more new contributors and projects this year. We'll begin accepting applications from mentoring organizations on Monday, March 3, 2008, and student applications on Monday, March 24th...." Link at http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ Nice news. Google is doing what most democratic governments are repeatedly failing to do ! CK Raju Thrissur