I ought to mention the selected applicants for Google’s Summer of Code — FFmpeg edition. Calling them “winners”, though, is quite the misnomer. They’ve signed up for a summer of hard hacking on some ambitious goals:

• VC-1 decoder by Kostya Shishkov
• AMR decoder and encoder by Robert Swain
• EAC3 decoder by Kartikey Mahendra BHATT
• LGPL AAC decoder by Maxim Gavrilov
• Vorbis encoder by Mathew Philip