This comes from Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman
Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently poison the atmosphere of a happy developer community. Come learn how to identify these people and peacefully de-fuse them before they derail your project. Told through a series of (often amusing) real-life anecdotes and experiences.
http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/presentations/2007-07-26-OSCON-poisonous-people.pdf
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645
I thought it was pretty cool.

The deadline for student applications for Google Summer of code is Monday March 31, 2007 at 5PM Pacific time (USA)
I have been corresponding with about 15 students over the past week helping them clarify their proposals. We have 4 filed proposals so far and several are pretty solid. I am sure at the deadline we will have at least 10 more.
If you have interested students that you want to apply for the program – make sure they put in at least a basic application before the deadline so we can talk to them.
Since time is short – if students want help from me – have them send me a 2-3 paragraph proposal as best they can write it and I will send it back with comments to help add some detail.
If you have any questions send me a note.
/Chuck
Here is the student application page:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/guide-to-the-gsoc-web-app-for-student-applicants
Here is a description of the Sakai entry in SOC:
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/sakai/about.html
Here is the project ideas (just a starting point) page:
http://www.sakaiproject.org/soc2008/