Johannes Schlüter

Just a short note: The deadline for applying to GSoC has been extended by Google till April 7th! So we hope to get a few more great proposals! So what's a great proposal? It's a good idea (either from our ideas page or some own idea) Being creative and having an own idea which is acceptable might look harder on first sight as you have to come up with an idea, discuss it beforehand to see whether it's acceptable and maybe fine-tune it then before wasting too much time but applying for an idea from our ideas page means that there are other candidates who want to do the same which therefore means you have to show us why you are the perfect candidate for that task and are better than others.

So please contact to us (see ideas page) if you want to discuss your ideas and apply!

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