Hello everyone -- On behalf of Ruby Central, the mentoring organization, I am very pleased indeed to announce the students who have been awarded grants through the Google Summer of Code program for 2006. First, I'd like to express our deep thanks to all the students who applied, and to all the mentor volunteers. Everyone put in a lot of time on preparing and/or ranking applications, and the pool of applications as well as the roster of mentors was impressive. I hope that those of you who did not receive funding this year will nonetheless come back next year and apply. The students who have been awarded grants by Google, along with their project titles and names of their mentors, are: Alexander Stephen Bradbury: Automated Wrapper Generation for Information Extraction Mentor: Austin Ziegler Gregory Brown: Ruby Reports Mentor: David Pollak Kevin Clark: mkmf for Rake Mentor: Caleb Tennis Robert Figueiredo: A Ruby Rule-based toolkit Mentor: Kirk Haines Benjamin Gorlick: Improved style and extendable interactive documentation system for Ruby and Rails Mentor: James Edward Gray II Florian Gross: ruby-breakpoint GUI client Mentor: Patrick Hurley Ilmari Heikkinen: Pure-Ruby OpenGL GUI widget systemMentor: Ryan Leavengood Jeffrey Hughes: Port Ruby to Symbian OSMentor: Dibya Prakash Jason Morrison: Code Completion with Type Inference for Ruby Development Tools project Mentor: Christopher Williams Gabriele Renzi: New Administration subsystem for nitro Mentor: Bryan Soto -- David A. Black (dblack / wobblini.net) * Ruby Power and Light, LLC (http://www.rubypowerandlight.com) > Ruby and Rails consultancy and training * Author of "Ruby for Rails" from Manning Publications! > http://www.manning.com/black