Summer is getting closer, Google Summer of Code 2008 also, and like every year, PHP is taking part of the GSoC. A list of project's ideas is already available at PHP Wiki including :

- PECL, Website Improvements, Windows Build support improvements
- Automatic Code Checker
- Zend bytecode to LLVM bitcode converter
- Algorithm Optimizations
- Implement Unicode into PHP 6
- Replace auto* with CMake
- Build Infrastructure and macro bindings for writing extension in D
- Put Ilia's Optimizer in APC
- Rewrite the run-tests.php script
- PhD: The PHP based Docbook renderer
- PHPUnit
- PHP-GTK
- Pave the way for One-Bugtracker-Rules-Them-All
- Anonymous functions and closures and other missing object oriented features

Students are always welcomed to suggest other new ideas for project or application. Over the past three years, the Google summer of Code has brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide, all for the love of code.