No-one else in the blogosphere appears to have said this, so I will: There are three LispNYC projects sponsored as part of Google's Summer of Code 2006, listed here. There were links to the project proposals when I first visited this page; they appear to have disappeared now. Maybe they will reappear eventually.

At least two of the projects themselves look vaguely interesting in a niche way: it's not my niche, but that's fine. I don't think that another "Lispy Web Framework" is terribly exciting – to me, web frameworks are the last big thing, not the next one; the other two I don't really feel qualified to evaluate based just on the proposal; we'll see what happens over the course of the Summer. But at least this year's crop is less depressing than last year's, which provided one unambiguously good result (and several intermediate ones, and several disasters) out of nine projects; of course, it's a bit hard to judge, because there has been no report made of last year's LispNYC projects to the wider community.

(I should also say that I am very pleased that people are being funded to work on other areas that I use every day: Debian, GNOME, Mozilla, OpenOffice, GNU, and so on. Even if I think that their software is not perfect either by design or in practice, they provide something that is better for me than it would be if they withered away and died, and increasing the pool of talent by encouraging bright students to participate in the Free Software ecosystem is, I think, a good thing for me even if I see no direct benefit.)

Also, congratulations to mjg59 for still being a student, and hence being eligible for Googledollars.