Those of you who are a college student, work on a college campus, know college students, or have a college student as a child, please notice: The Google Summer of Code student application deadline for 2008 has been extended for one week to April 7. This means that students have one additional week to apply for a summer job to help extend MacPorts!!! This is a great opportunity for students to get real, live, on the ground programming experience, work on an exciting open source project with an experienced adult mentor, and (best of all) to be paid $4500 USD by google for the summer of work. MacPorts has many great tasks that could use attention, and still has lots of slots for volunteers; we could use more applicants. Please pass the word to qualified and interested student applicants: the more applicants we get, the more slots we'll positions we'll be granted by google. This is a great opportunity not just for the students, but to foster and extend the MacPorts project. Please see http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/SummerOfCode for more details. If you have questions, do hesitate to directly contact me, William Siegrist, or any of the other mentors. James