Hi all,
Since yesterday google is accepting applications for all participating projects. See http://code.google.com/soc for how to apply and read the faq linked there! The past few days a lot of good proposals were discussed, but you really need to submit them to the google web application officially to make them count. The deadline for this is 1 april 2008 00:00 UTC, but I would recommend submitting your application a few days before that to be sure.
It optional, but recommended to slip a patch past Alexandre Julliard, he's Swiss so bribing with chocolate doesn't work! It doesn't have to be a big patch, just so that we know you can check out the wine git tree, and know how to get a patch in. Of course if you already did this once you don't have to do it again.
A good guideline to what should be in an application is at http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_proposal_template You don't have to follow this, but it's a good indication of what an application should contain. It's also a good idea to separate your goals into must-haves and nice-to-haves. The must haves you definitely want to do before the end of the summer, and the nice-to-haves are for the goals that you want to do, but you're not sure if you have all the time for them.
Cheers,
Maarten.
PS: Mentors wanted, too! If you want to be a mentor, but have questions or doubts, contact me privately. To sign up as mentor: http://tinyurl.com/29awt6