After we participated in the Google Summer of Code™ program as a mentoring organization in 2007, we pulled together an application for this year, too — and we got accepted again! So the Phyloinformatics Summer of Code, as we are calling our program in reference to the emphasis on phyloinformatics, has been on for 2008 since March 17, when Google published the list of accepted organizations. The period during which students can apply opened on March 24, and was originally slated to end only one week later, on March 31.
The latest news is that Google may extend the application deadline for students by one week. We’ll hear the final decision on this early tomorrow morning (Pacific Time, obviously – so probably no news on this on the East Coast before noon). So if you are a student enrolled at a university in a graduate or undergraduate program, you are interested in evolutionary or comparative biology, and you have always wanted to get involved in a bioinformatics open-source software project or even possibly help found one, here is your chance for likely another week, and Google will even pay you a stipend.
On March 14, 2008, the website 
