This Friday, April 9th at 19:00 UTC is the deadline for students to apply to this year's Google Summer of Code.

The Chromium project has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this awesome program. This means that you have the opportunity to work on exciting new features for Chromium over the summer, experience real-world browser development with a Chromium team mentor, and, of course, receive a stipend.

To participate, first pick an idea off our handy ideas list or come up with your own. Next, discuss it with a prospective mentor on our mailing list or irc channel. Finally, when you’re confident you have a solid idea, write up a proposal on how you'd implement it in the allotted time frame (3 months) and submit it at the official gsoc website. In evaluating proposals, we'll be looking for familiarity with the codebase and lots of intelligent detail. The more detail you can provide, the better!

Once again, proposals are due Friday. We're looking forward to seeing great project proposals and expanding our community!

Posted by Jeremy Moskovich, Software Engineer