__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________After another great year of Google Summer of Code 2017 and another 7 successful student projects, The Honeynet Project and students world-wide were eagerly waiting to hear if Google would decide to run GSoC again. Well the good news is that Google officially announced that Google Summer of Code 2016 would definitely be happening. Go Google! The GSoC 2016 programme starts in February with the first major milestone being the deadline for Mentoring Organization applications by 19:00 UTC on Friday February 19th. We really enjoyed our experience as a successful mentoring organization (Org) in Google Summer of Code 2009, Google Summer of Code 2010, Google Summer of Code 2011, Google Summer of Code 2012, Google Summer of Code 2013 and Google Summer of Code 2015 so we are very happy to announce that we have once again applied to participate as a mentoring organization in GSoC 2016. Google will be reviewing mentoring organization applications over the coming days then announcing the official list of participating mentoring Orgs for GSoC 2016 on their web site at 19:00 UTC on February 29th. Usually 300-500 potential mentoring organizations apply, with only 150-200 lucky Orgs being selected, so Org applications are highly competitive. In the mean time, potential mentoring Orgs will be improving their public project ideas pages, preparing mentors, fielding student questions and keeping their collective fingers crossed in the hope of being selected. Potential GSoC students and other interested parties can view our still under development list of possible project ideas and potential mentors. As in previous years, this list of proposed project ideas is not definitive and (assuming we get selected to participate) will remain a work in progress until GSoC 2016 student applications officially start on March 14th. We are also still open to receiving and mentoring interesting, novel and relevant project ideas received from students, including informal contact before official student applications begin. We will also probably post a public survey link here and on our main blog to allow anyone interested to suggest project ideas too. So if there is a research topic you are interested in working on this summer, please suggest it, or get in touch to discuss it further. The third and fourth GSoC 2016 milestones (after Org application and Org selection) will be student applications and acceptance. GSoC 2016 student applications begins on March 14th at 19:00 UTC and close on March 25th at 19:00 UTC. Please make sure you check the official GSoC 2016 timeline carefully if you plan on applying. To avoid disappointment and missed deadlines, if you are a student applying to GSoC this year, please make sure you submit your student application well in advance and don't leave it to the last minute! A good idea is to begin talking to us as soon as Google announces the official list of GSoC 2016 mentoring Orgs. The sooner is usually the better, although since GSoC is highly competitive for both students and Orgs, we obviously cannot guarantee we will be selected to participate this year. Please bear that in mind when making contact. On April 22th Google will officially announce the list of approximately 1000 lucky students who will be accepted to participate in GSoC 2016. We very much hope that many of you reading this page will be among that number and about to start working for the summer on another exciting information security project with The Honeynet Project. ECT Project Ideas Past and Present
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