Google have announced the openSUSE projects and students taking part in this year’s Google Summer of Code. The projects include:

• LTSP GUI Management for openSUSE
  by Jan Weber, mentored by Jigish Gohil

• Interactive Crash Analysis
  by Nikolay Derkach, mentored by Jan Blunck

• Face Based Authentication
  by Rohan Anil, mentored by Alex Lau Chun Yin

• Grub4ext4: enable ext4 file system as boot partition
  by PengTao, mentored by Coly Li

• New approach for (RPM) packages creation
  By Andrei Oprisan, mentored by Stanislav Brabec

• Libzypp Download Failover
  by Gerard Farràs i Ballabriga, mentored by Peter Poeml

• GNOME Build service client for OpenSUSE
  by Mario Đanić, mentored by Rodrigo Moya

• Integration of OpenID Consumer to Build Service
  by Hameedullah Khan, mentored by Cornelius Schumacher

• Migration asistent reloaded
  by Peter Libič, mentored by Pavol Rusnak

• Build Service <-> Eclipse Integration
  by longhong, mentored by Michal Marek

Only 10 applications from the 67 could be chosen. Special thanks to everybody that has been involved so far: the volunteering mentors, those driving the application process, and of course — all of the students. Congratulations to all the selected students!