Dear Gretl Users: As some of you may already know, each year Google organizes the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program and supports open source development by offering students around the world stipends for engaging in helping different open source software projects. We think that this is a very important program because it helps students understand the social side of programming and become familiar with the open source development model while also assisting the development of various open source programs. This year, we decided to apply to this program and formalized a list of projects that a student can undertake over the summer with the help of a gretl developer. Our GSoC "ideas" list is located at: http://gretlwiki.econ.univpm.it/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009... If you have any comments on the list or have additional ideas, please get in touch with the organization administrator (me) so that we can discuss and see wheather they are feasible to accomplish through this kind of program. In addition, if you are a student with a knowledge of the C programming language, you can consider applying for one of the projects or propose your own idea. In either case, please get in touch with the developers through subscribing to the gretl-devel mailing list at http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel We look forward to hearing from you. A. Talha YALTA Gretl GSoC 2009 Organization Administrator -- “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) --