The Perl Foundation is participating in Google's 2008 Summer of Code.
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
This means Google will give "successful student contributors a 4500 USD
stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for three months."
"In order to participate in the program, you must be a student. [...]
enrolled in or accepted into an accredited institution including (but
not necessarily limited to) colleges, universities, masters programs,
PhD programs and undergraduate programs"
There's a page of key information and suggested Perl-related projects at
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects
Naturally I'm hoping to find someone interested in helping with
a DBI-specific project:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects#common_test_suite_for_dbi_and_drivers
but there are plenty of other interesting and useful projects.
Tim.
