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After sorting through almost 400 applications of mentoring projects, Google has announced this year's list of projects students can contribute to. There aren't too many FOSS gaming related projects this time though. These are the relevant ones: Blender Foundation ( task ideas ) Ok, not really a game CodeCombat ( task ideas ) We covered it a while ago Copyleftgames.org ( task ideas ) Anyone got details on this one? Crystal Space Engine ( task ideas ) same as every year... Inkscape ( task ideas ) Ok I am stretchning it a bit here jMonkeyEngine ( task ideas ) great java game SDK ScummVM ( task ideas ) Point&click adventure game engine SuperTuxKart ( task ideas ) Yeah! Battle for Wesnoth ( task ideas ) No need to explain ;) Worldforge ( task ideas ) Also hosting: RyzomCore, CEGUI If you are not into game developer but would still like to contribute your programming skills I recommend you to have a look at these other selected projects (totally subjective and uns...

Google's Summer of Code , is an annual sponsorship of programmers to improve selected open-source programs (or games :D ). This year, quite a few interesting FOSS game projects got accepted (again) and one being our very own friends of the SuperTuxKart project. Read more about their role as a mentoring organization here . So how about applying as a participant yourself and helping out this great FOSS game? You can also browse other accepted mentoring projects here , if SuperTuxKart isn't your thing. Other notable FOSS game (engine) projects accepted are: Battle for Wesnoth WorldForge (Hosting also Ryzom Core & CEGUI) Crystal Space OGRE3D Blender 3D Nice summer of coding ahead :)