<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[pm_groups] TPF in Google Summer of Code!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>Hi all,<br><br>Please forward this to your local groups.<br><br>The Perl Foundation has been officially accepted into the Google Summer <br>of Code 2009 program as a mentor organization!<br><br>Hopefully some of you have identified some potential students already. <br>Now we need your help getting them to submit their proposals.<br><br><a href="http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2009/03/tpf-accepted-to-google-summer-of-code-2009.html">http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2009/03/tpf-accepted-to-google-summer-of-code-2009.html</a><br><br>The student application period begins Monday, March 23rd and runs <br>through April 3rd. (Students note: you can edit your proposal <br>throughout that 11-day period -- getting it started early and talking <br>to potential mentors greatly increases your chances vs throwing it over <br>the wall at the deadline.) See this page for details:<br><br> http://code.google.com/soc/<br><br>Interested students and potential mentors, please read the GSoC info on <br>the Perl wiki:<br><br> http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc<br> http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc_2009_projects<br><br>If you're interested in mentoring or have a good project suggestion, now <br>is the time to get your info up on the wiki so students will know about <br>your code and where to find you.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Eric<br>--<br>Request pm.org Technical Support via support@pm.org<br><br>pm_groups mailing list<br>pm_groups@pm.org<br>http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/pm_groups<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>