Nine(!) of LispNYC's proposed Summer of Code projects are being funded by Google [via Dirk Gerrits]:

• Lisp Sockets - “The proposal is to create single socket library with a standard interface for all Lisp implementations in all environments. This will be accomplished by using a portable OS FFI (Foreign Function Interface) to gain access to native C socket libraries.”
• FetterFfi - “A program will be created to automatically generate foreign function interface (FFI) bindings directly from C++ header files. The program will implement this functionality using GCC-XML to parse C++ header files, giving it the ability to support a wide range of C++ features.”
• AxiomUI - “The goal of this project is to provide a platform independent graphical user interface to the computer algebra system Axiom.”
• GoDb - “This project will build a new interface to the GO Database (www.geneontology.org, www.godatabase.org/dev) that caches the queries one makes in order to improve speed.”
• Hello-C - “Hello-C is a recent fork of UFFI, or Universal Foreign Function Interface. Hello-C adds support for callbacks from C, and is meant to allow UFFI to move forward, since UFFI's originator needs it to remain stable for his own work.”
• PltStepper - “Presently, the PLT scheme stepper only works with the beginner and intermediate levels of the language. Extend it to be a general part of all of the language levels.”
• PltDb - “There are a number of projects that have created database drivers for PLT Scheme, but there is not yet a unified API. The project is to create a unified API and then adapt the existing drivers or create new ones as necessary to use this unified API.”
• Slime Stepper - “Although Slime is getting better everyday, it still lacks some important debugging tools. The stepper is one of those tools.”
• ErLisp - “The Erlisp project aims at extending the most popular Common Lisp implementations in order to make the concurrent programming features of Erlang available to them.”