The first Joomla! Student Outreach Program has began. JSOP is a program that will allow students to gain real-world software development experience working with world-class mentors on projects of value to the Joomla! community.

Students can already submit their applications using the JSOP 2010 Student Application Template, applications will be accepted until  may 10. We have 11 projects listed on Joomla! Student Outreach Program Project Ideas where you can select what projects you are interested in and write your name on it. I'll will be mentoring 2 amassing projects one is to develop a Project Collaboration System and the other is to develop better Multimedia Galleries reusing code from J!Multimedia.

You can read more information on the links:

Here is a chart of the deadlines for each itemized task.

Date Description
26 April 2010 Students can begin submitting applications.
10 May 2010 Student application deadline.
17 May 2010 Students notified of acceptance into the program and assigned to projects.
20 May 2010 Team organization and preparations begin.
1 June 2010 Let the coding and work begin!
30 June 2010 First round of short projects ends.
1 July 2010 Second round of short projects begins.
30 July 2010 Second round of short projects ends.
31 August 2010 Long projects end.
6 September 2010 Final evaluations on long projects due.

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