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 === Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2009? What do you hope to gain by participating? ===
-Drawing from our pleasant experience during our participation in GSoC '07 we feel compelled to apply again this year. Our goals for the gains to be attained through GSoC remain almost the same.
+Yes! We like GSoC too much! We love it! We wait eagerly each year for GSoC to start!
-Firstly, we hope to gain some new active developers. While we already have several very active contributors, these people are already mostly busy in specific subprojects and tasks. New people mean new ideas, new energy, and new ways of thinking. Therefore, a longer lasting engagement of our student contributors would be our highest hope.
+What we hope to gain is valuable code contributions. In the past, we've had students take up and complete tasks which had been marked as "to-do", but the main developers were at a loss of time to implement them. The students have taken these up as self-contained GSoC projects and realized them. But also, some students have come up with new functionality, proposed and finally implemented it. These have been our favorite.
-Furthermore, we have a list of self-contained tasks on specific aspects of ScummVM which have not been tackled yet. These tasks will improve the functionality of ScummVM, making them valuable to the ScummVM community. GSoC is a very good opportunity to have these implemented through the incentives the program offers. These tasks also present a good point of entry for new developers to ease themselves in the extensive ScummVM codebase.
+In addition, we hope to gain new developers in the project. We hope that after their projects, students will stick around and improve them or work on other interesting tasks. We hope that GSoC brings the students in touch with open source and in our case bring them in touch with game developing. We hope these students will add their piece of code in this project and will keep on contributing afterwards.
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 ===  Did your organization participate in past GSoCs? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. ===