This is great news for the Drupal community, Google has accepted 20 Drupal projects for the 2011 Google Summer of Code, representing an investment of $110,000 US by Google for these projects.
The accepted ones are the following:
| Application | Student | Mentors |
|---|---|---|
| Expose Drupal translation activity | Adam Lippai | gaborhojtsy |
| Making the git infrastructure compatible with Drupal's auth mechanism | Anshul Singhle | sdboyer |
| Hierarchical permissions for Drupal 8 | Bálint Kléri
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| Version Control Activity logging, Activity Streams and Development Statistics | Christophe Van Gysel | sdboyer, sirkitree |
| JavaScript testing framework | cwgordon7 | ksenzee |
| Recommender Module Performance Enhancement & Drupal for Data-intensive Computing | Daniel Zhou | Owen Barton, dylan_tack |
| Extending the current "Materialized Views" API | Dhruv Baldawa | straussd |
| Improving the Search API | Thomas Seidl | mh86, narres |
| Drupal Commerce discounts setup | Felipe Eltermann | rszrama, wundo |
| Porting Neologism to Drupal 7 | Mayank Kandpal | cygri, dylan_tack |
| Business Analytics and Reporting | nodestroy | mh86, zsanmartin |
| Help Aegir move to a 2.0 release | Seth Vincent | anarcat |
| Improving Rules 2 | sebastian | klausi |
| Integrate node.js as well as DrupalChat module functionality to Chatroom module. | Shashwat Srivastava | afeijo, zesanmartin, justinrandell |
| Derivates API for Media ecosystem (D7) | Janez Urevc | kreynen |
| Secure Code Review | Jim Berry | greggles, stella |
| Onboarding API | Tiago Carmona | wundo, ezra |
| Porting DrupalGapps to D7 & Integration of OAuth & Google Documents List API | Vaidik | ankur, dereine, stella, houndbee |
| Module and Theme Browser in Drupal Core | Leighton Whiting | dmitrig01 |
| Conditional text | Tamás Demeter-Haludka | jhodgdon |
Imformación adicional en: http://drupal.org/node/1139168