Summer days are coming and people are looking forward to it. But summertime don’t always mean beaches and sun, it can also be made fun right at home. You can always do something creative and  at the same time improve your skills, like writing skills for instance. But this summer colllege students are given a great opportunity to do something different. The contrivance of WordPress offers everybody something interesting this summer. This year WordPress is again participating in the Google Summer Code and giving any college student the opportunity to join and win the WordPress Summer of Code 2009! The projects range from BuddyPress development, plugins and core functionality. Currently, the competition is going on and it’s getting intense. The deadline of applications is on the 3rd day of April, 2009. You can get more information at the WordPress Codex GSoC2009. There you will find the listed projects as well as the supervising mentors. The overview of the program is discussed in more details in the FAQ page, where you can all the information you need. You can start by visiting the Google Summer of Code application site.

Now there’s a whole new reason to stay at home and do something creative and worthwhile this summer. The good thing about it is that on top of improving your skills in coding/programming, you’ll also be learning from the best programmers worldwide who will be instructing you on the project. This is just the perfect alternative for you to spend summer fun in the web when you can’t find your place in the sun. Terrific.

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