Google has just announced accepted projects for their yearly "summer of code" event. This year they accepted 900 students (from 6200 applicants), who will be working over the summer to improve 140 FLOSS projects. Students receive $4,500 for completed projects, and the mentoring organizations receive $500 for each project. Google stands to pay out up to $4.5 million if all of the projects reach completion. The list of this year's accepted projects can be found here: http://code.google.com/soc/ Among various projects, I notice one regarding integration of R into openoffice Calc for example. I think it might be a good idea for gretl to apply and participate in this event next year with several projects that will improve various aspects of the program. For example, I remember Allin looking for volunteers some time ago for improving the preferences windows so that more options can be set using the GUI instead of the console commands etc. Something to think about. Cheers Talha -- "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem." - Bill Vaughan --