LimeSurvey has, for the third consecutive year, been selected as a participating organisation in Google's Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2011. GSoC is a global program that offers university students stipends to write code for open source projects. In 2009 and 2010 this has resulted in some brilliant coding for LimeSurvey and the introduction of highly talented new developers to our project. We welcome all students who are interested in submitting an application to do a project with LimeSurvey this year. Please visit our Wiki page to find out more and view some of the project ideas that have been floated for this year. http://docs.limesurvey.org/GSoC+getting+started

Over the next month our new students will be active around our forums and our Discord chat as they get to know the code, the community and their mentors. They'll be refining their projects while this happens and wanting feedback from our userbase, so don't be strangers and if you have some time jump over to their wiki pages and give them your thoughts. (We'll add links as soon as they're up). In the meantime, please welcome our new students. Aniessh Sethh Aniessh will be working on developing a central participants database for LimeSurvey. Aniessh has been working with LimeSurvey for over a year now and developed the Mail Bounce tracking system in the current release. Aniessh's handle on IRC is aniessh. Aniessh is a student at the Echelon Institute of Technology in Faridabad - just south west of Delhi, India. His mentors are Jason Cleeland and Marcel Minke. . . Shubham SachdevaShubham will be working with Diogo Goncalves, porting the LimeSurvey codebase to CodeIgniter. Shubham has been working with LimeSurvey for some time and been contributing to it's development so this will be an extension of his involvement with the project. You'll find Shubham on our Discord chats with the handle magiclko. Shubham is a student at the University School of Information Technology, GGSIPU, Delhi in India. Shubham's mentors are Carsten Schmitz and Thibault Le Meur. . Diogo GoncalvesDiogo will be working on porting the LimeSurvey codebase to CodeIgniter with Shubham Sachdeva. Diogo has had experience in other open source PHP projects including developing a plugin for phpBB as well as having reported and fixed some LimeSurvey bugs. Diogo studies at the University of Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal. Diogo can be found on IRC as dionet. Diogo's mentors are Carsten Schmitz and Jason Cleeland . Pooja NarulaPooja will be working on rebuilding the database frontend using CodeIgniter. Pooja has had experience with LimeSurvey bugs and is experienced in php, javascript, CSS and AJAX.  Pooja studies at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi, India and her IRC nick is pnarula. Pooja's mentors are Maarten Tielemans and Pieter-Jan Speelmans  

In the light of recent events we are happy to announce that the LimeSurvey project will participate in Google Code-In 2011 (GCIN). Two prospective GCIN partipicants contacted us and are very eager to help port LimeSurvey to the new PHP framework. After collecting all requirements for our future PHP framework and after these two students helped us to do a Proof-of-Concept base port of the admininstration login/main menu/global settings we decided that we will use Yii as future framework for LimeSurvey. It has a very vibrant community, is really fast and offers every comfort in addition to our requirements. So far it looks like we will be able to port huge parts of LimeSurvey during the GCIN contest and that means that the LimeSurvey project in general is moving with full speed again. Yay!