The Summer of Code 2008 is under way.

Students can submit proposals, based on the list of ideas published by candidate mentors, from March 24th to 31st.
The good thing about Summer of Code is that you can participate in the production of open source products, learn some coding discipline and method, interact with great programmers. The bad news is that Summer of Code is only for students, and therefore the non-students who would like to get involved have to find a different way.

Be a mentor!

Last year, two prominent community members (Sheeri K. Cabral and Paul McCullagh) have mentored three Summer of Code projects on behalf of MySQL.
If you have a pet project, and would like to mentor it under the Summer of Code terms, post the project on the ideas page and advertise it in a blog and in the mailing list.
We welcome community participation!