Google SOC is opened for 2006.

I think nothing can prove the success of the project better than the very fact that in 2006, google is again offering an opportunity to fund talented students from the whole world (See the geographical distribution of the 2005 SOC coders) to participate in top open source projects.

The Ruby/Ruby on Rails community didn’t respond quickly enough last year, but hopefully in 2006, backed by rubycentral.org we will not miss this great opportunity to get some motivated and talented people on board.