Accepted to Google Summer of Code 2007!

I just got the email congratulating me on my future participation in Google Summer of Code 2007. My application for the Swarm Development Group was accepted!

I just created a GSoC 2007 .Mac page to which I'll post my accepted and declined applications over the next few days.

Let the waiting begin!

From the Google Code weblog:

It's shaping up to be another exciting Google Summer of Code this year! As of the deadline, we've received 6,179 student applications from over 3,000 students. The list of accepted student proposals will be published on April 11, 2007 on the Google Summer of Code page.

6,179 student applications from over 3000 students, nice. That's an average of about 2 applications per student. Just wondering how many students actually reached their application limit of 20. Since only 1 in 5 students or 1 in 10 applications (around 600) will be accepted, this should be a long wait for most students :)

Update:
It seems google is accepting around 800 students, instead of the number stated in their faq.

Google Summer of Code

A few more minutes and the Google Summer of Code 2007 (GSoC 2007) student application deadline will pass! I submitted three applications in total for the following organizations:

• the Swarm Development Group
• the XMPP Foundation
• Gallery

For the Swarm Development Group I applied to integrate the Swarm library with the Cocoa framework. This is one of the ideas proposed by the Swarm developers.

For the other two organizations I came up with my own project of which I think the project communities will benefit from.

More information on my reasons for choosing the proposed projects and the full project applications as submitted to google will be posted online soon. Accepted student applications will be published by google on the GSoC 2007 homepage on April 11.

Update:
The student application deadline has been extended to 16:00 UTC march 27.

Update 2:
Because of the extended deadline I decided to submit another application, this time for the Eclipse foundation. This brings the total amount of my applications to 4, which I think is a reasonable amount (even though 20 are allowed by google).