Over the PHP.net website today, there is an announcement for the Summer of Code 2006 Students, this year seven students have been chosen for the Google 'Summer of Code'. Through this project, Google provides student developers with a stipend to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects like PHP. The students are each mentored by members of our community, who will look after the students and their projects step by step. PHP projects for this year are :

* PDF PECL extension by Lauris Bukšis-Haberkorns, mentored by Michael Wallner
* phpAspect by Candillon William, mentored by Marcus Boerger
* PHP Macro Preprocessor by Pavlo Shelyazhenko, mentored by Marcus Boerger
* Quality Assurance GCOV website by Daniel Pronych, mentored by Marcus Boerger
* Livedocs - making DocBook less painful, and manuals more useful by Philip Olson, mentored by Ilia Alshanetsky
* New package to read, create or modify OpenDocument files by Alexander Pak, mentored by Lukas Smith
* DML support: an improvement to PEAR::MDB2_Schema by Igor Feghali, mentored by Lukas Smith