The projects for the Google Summer of Code 2008 have been released. Eric has mentioned the Perl projects, and I wish them all success.
What is quite staggering is the number of projects involved: 1,125. This is a lot of work for all the organisations involved. With a handy Perl script I can break the organisations down by number of projects:
47 KDE
34 Python Software Foundation
31 The Apache Software Foundation
30 GNOME
21 The FreeBSD Project
21 Drupal
20 The Eclipse Foundation
20 OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial Foundation
15 Mono Project
15 SIP Communicator
15 Joomla!
14 The NetBSD Project
14 MySQL
14 VideoLAN
13 Debian
12 The Fedora Project & JBoss.org
12 Moodle
11 The Mozilla Project
11 Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
11 OpenMRS
10 openSUSE
10 Tux4Kids
10 The Globus Alliance
10 XWiki
10 GNU Project
10 PHP
10 The Java PathFinder Team
10 OpenMoko Inc.
9 FFmpeg
9 Tcl/Tk Community
9 Sahana
9 GenMAPP
9 Ruby Central
8 The Enlightenment Project
8 OLAT, University of Zurich
8 WordPress
8 The Linux Foundation
8 Thousand Parsec
8 Boost C++
7 GCC
7 Portland State University
7 Codehaus
7 haskell.org
7 The DragonFly BSD Project
7 Computer Systems Research Group, Vrije Universiteit (MINIX)
7 Natural User Interface Group
7 atheme.org
7 Nmap Security Scanner
7 Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Univ. of Michigan
7 LispNYC
7 OpenNMS
7 The Electronic Frontier Foundation
6 Gentoo
6 BZFlag
6 Git Development Community
6 LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
6 Geeklog
6 The Perl Foundation
6 PostgreSQL project
6 OpenAFS
6 Dojo Foundation
6 Pidgin
6 OSSIM: Open Source Security Information Management
6 XMMS2 - X(cross)platform Music Multiplexing System
6 Blender Foundation
6 XMPP Standards Foundation
6 AbiSource
6 ScummVM
6 TurboGears
6 The Wine Project
6 MoinMoin Wiki Project
6 The WebKit Open Source Project
6 OMII-UK
5 ChristmasFuture
5 Pardus project
5 ArgoUML
5 Umit
5 Audacity
5 The Squeak Project
5 Crystal Space
5 Vim
5 BlueZ
5 NCSA - The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois
5 CLAM (at Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
5 Internet2
5 Inkscape
5 Zope Foundation, Inc
5 BBC Research
5 Creative Commons
5 Haiku
5 Ptolemy Project, University of California, Berkeley
5 The X.Org Foundation
5 Simple DirectMedia Layer
5 GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
5 Plone Foundation
5 NESCent - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
4 Etherboot Project
4 GStreamer
4 Internet Archive
4 Coppermine Photo Gallery
4 Pentaho
4 Mixxx
4 Django
4 One Laptop per Child
4 OpenStreetMap
4 Battle for Wesnoth
4 Neuros Technology
4 Open64
4 ES operating system
4 The gEDA Project
4 GNU Hurd
4 R Foundation for Statistical Computing
4 DSPACE FOUNDATION
4 Mercurial (a project of the Software Freedom Conservancy)
4 K-3D
4 PostNuke Application Framework
4 Wikimedia Foundation
4 NetSurf
4 OGRE
4 SWIG
4 MacPorts
4 Project Hackystat
4 BRL-CAD
4 Rockbox
4 hugin/panotools
4 RTEMS Project
3 Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL)
3 Ingres
3 Scribus Team
3 WorldForge
3 OpenInkpot
3 GNUstep
3 WinLibre
3 OSCAR
3 MetaBrainz Foundation Inc.
3 Adium
3 Jikes RVM
3 Google
3 Translate Toolkit & Pootle
3 Samba
3 Gnumeric
3 Open Security Foundation (OSVDB)
3 SCons next-generation build system
3 wxPython
3 TeX Users Group
3 Sakai Foundation and IMS Global Learning Consortium
3 The ns-3 Project
3 Cairo
2 XBMC
2 The Software Freedom Conservancy
2 Jato
2 PlanetMath.org, Ltd.
2 Plazi Verein
2 Zumastor
2 OAR
2 OpenChange (a project of the Software Freedom Conservancy)
2 Dirac Schrodinger
2 The SYSLINUX Project
2 Subclipse
2 International Components for Unicode
2 eXist
2 Linden Lab (Second Life)
2 coresystems GmbH
2 Gallery
2 The Free Software Initiative of Japan
2 OpenICC
2 Subversion
2 Ohio Supercomputer Center
2 wxWidgets
2 Xiph.org Foundation
2 Ohloh Corporation
2 Swarm Development Group (SDG)
2 Hypertriton, Inc.
1 Freenet Project Inc
1 Comprehensive C Archive Network (CCAN)
1 Open Source Applications Foundation
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