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[News] 1,125 Free Software Developers Sponsored by Google

Google Summer of Code 2008 Takes 1,125 Developers

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| or Google Summer of Code (SoC) 2008, Google is paying for 1,125 student 
| developers, which is an increase from the 900 students the program took in 
| 2007. Those students will work with 175 Free and Open Source Projects as 
| mentors to  help improve and expand their development.   
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/google-summer-of-code-2008-tak.html

KDE SOC projects published

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| The list of the Google Summer of Code projects for KDE was published. The 
| list has several interesting entries to make the life for KDE users much 
| easier.  
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/kde-soc-projects-published/

"The number of developers working on improving Linux vastly exceeds the number
of Microsoft developers working on Windows NT."


                                --Paul Maritz, Microsoft


Recent:

Games : Games at Google Summer of Code 2008

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| Google has published a list of mentoring organizations and projects for 
| Google Summer of Code 2008. Quite a few gaming and gaming-related projects 
| have made it again this year:  
| 
|     * Battle for Wesnoth - ideas
|     * BZFlag - ideas
|     * Crystal Space - ideas
|     * OGRE - ideas
|     * ScummVM - ideas
|     * Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) - ideas
|     * Thousand Parsec - ideas
|     * Tux4Kids - ideas
|     * WorldForge - ideas
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http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2403


Google behind Photoshop's new Linux compatibility

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| "About 200 patches were committed to winehq, and as of wine-0.9.54, Photoshop 
| CS2 is quite usable," Kegel noted in a separate post. 
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http://www.apcmag.com/8034/google_behind_photoshops_new_linux_compatibility

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