The Plan 9 community is recruiting student ds developers for google summer of code 2008.
If anyone is interested you can make contact on the plan9 irc channel on freenode or through the plan9 google group. The group also has a project page found at code.google.com/p/inferno-ds/
This should be a great opportunity to combine your studies with DS homebrew.
Thanks to http://www.drunkencoders.com for the news.