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===Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2009? What do you hope to gain by participating?===

===Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2009? What do you hope to gain by participating?===

Sugar is a community project. We hope to grow our community of developers through our participation in GSoC. (We also expect to get some tangible results from the student projects that will have a positive impact on our current and future deployments.)

 

Sugar is a community project. We hope to grow our community of developers through our participation in GSoC. In particular, we see GSoC as a good opportunity to tap into the interest we've had from university students who want to get involved with the project and see summer as a good chance to dedicate themselves full-time to doing something substantial with the community. The GSoC program also provides us with a useful impetus to examine our support structures and tools for new contributors, making us more able to welcome new open-source contributors to our project in the future.

 

We also expect to get some tangible code from the student projects that will have a positive impact on our current and future deployments, including the pilots we'll be starting near students participating in GSoC this summer.

===Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.===

===Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation.===