Google is expanding its Google Summer of Code 2007 initiative by over 30 percent from 2006, taking some 134 projects into the program, compared to the 102 it took in 2006.

The news comes one week before the deadline for student applications for Google's open source program.

The Google Summer of Code 2007 is the third year of the program that offers students and open source organizations cash grants for developing open source projects. The program notched 41 projects in 2005, its inaugural year.

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