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With summer just a few months away, students the world over are gearing up for exams and starting to think about what to do during summer 2009. While some will be enjoying a much needed break, others will be looking at ways to make extra money in what is shaping up to be one of our worst ever recessions.

But there is an alternative for the geeky set: Google's Summer of Code. Now in its fifth year, the Summer of Code will match 1000 students to 150 mentors from around the globe, and give them a chance to work on projects such as WordPress, Mozilla Project, GNOME, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Chromium, Creative Commons, Berkman Center at Harvard University, even the project's own collaborative software, Melange.