As others already wrote PHP participates in this year's Google Summer of Code program. If you are a student we'd welcome your application!

Some general hints:

• Feel free to propose your own ides, our list of ideas doesn't list everything possible.
• We are not interested in proposals for new frameworks or "I want to create my homepage using PHP", our ideas page should give you a good picture about the kind of stuff we are interested in
• Do some research on the subject, don't just copy&paste from our ideas page (we know that text!) but give us your opinion about the project
• Give us relevant information about you, we are, for isntance, not interested in the name of your cat.
• We are not thatm uch interested in people who take the money and leave, we prefer people who stay with the project, help with maintaining their code and maybe even other parts of PHP

And now: Hurry up, do your research, contact us (see ideas page) with questions and apply. The deadline is set to March 31st!