ThoughtfulChaos

Good old Google has announced yet another interesting contest. This one titled "Summer of Code" aims to introduce students to the world of open source software development.

Highlights:

• Only for students.
• Bounty of $4500 to each student who successfully completes a project by the end of the summer.
• PDF Flyer that gives the low down details about the contest.
• Lots of eminent mentoring organizations. These include Drupal, Fedora Core, Gnome Foundation, KDE, The Mono Project, NMap, OpenOffice, Perl Foundation, Ubuntu Linux and of course Google. The actual list is much longer and is available on the contest home page.
• There is a high volume mailing list for discussions related to the contest.