GSoC students are now announced by Google again, I'm sure the admins will be providing a more verbose announcement soon: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/debian It would be really useful to understand if there are options similar to last year for GSoC students to attend DebConf. http://debconf14.debconf.org Students who require a visa will need to start applying almost immediately as it takes a long time