The 2008 Google Summer of Code projects have been announced. We appreciate Google's continued support of free software and for funding 15 outstanding projects for Joomla!. This year, we are proud to announce that CiviCRM is part of the Joomla! GSoC experience.

Congratulations to the Joomla! GSoC students! Your proposals were selected from a very competitive pool of nearly 100 applications. For those interested in following along, each GSoC Project team will be blogging this summer on the developer.joomla.org site. Use the links, below, to join these conversations, provide your feedback, and encourage this work.

Advanced Media Manager, Nakul Ganesh S, Mysore, India
CiviCRM: Aesthetics and Usability, Jon Volkman, Seattle, Washington
CiviCRM: Multi-language Support, Piotr Szotkowski, Warsaw, Poland
Contact Directory, Chantal Bisson, Quebec City, Canada
Content Type Management, Ercan Özkaya, Konya, Turkey

Custom Content Layouts, Jaap Woltjes, the Netherlands
Forms, Mostafa Muhammad, Cairo, Egypt
Multi-DB Support, Alex de Azevedo, Brazil
Multimedia Portal, Marcelo Eden, Recife, Brazil
OpenSocial, Shannon Quinn, Atlanta, Georgia

Research Management, Luis Galárraga, Guayaquil, Guayas Ecuador
Semantic Web, Danh Le Phuoc, Vietnam, studying in Ireland
Tags, Jacek Zielinski, Poznan, Poland
Unit Testing, Scot Inscore, Whitewater, Wisconsin
Version Control, Flavio Kubota, Campinas, Brazil.