Great news of the Google Summer of Code front– FFmpeg put their project allotment of 5 to such good use last year that the overseers entrusted FFmpeg with a total of 8 project slots this year. These are the projects. The — ahem — lucky students include our returning SoC champ from the 2006 season, Kostya. New contenders are David Robert Conrad, Robert Bingham, Bartlomiej Wolowiec, Kamil Nowosad, Marco Gerards, Xiaohui Sun, and Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet.