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The primary goal of course is to find and introduce new long-term contributors
to the project.
-Aside from that, it is a way to make progress with tasks that require an amount of
-focused work, that is hard to do for volunteers working in their spare time
-only.
-
-Also, the Google Summer of Code is a good opportunity to get valuable input from new people, as well as
+The mentor-student setup, together with the period of focused work during the
+summer session, also offer a unique opportunity for kick-starting innovative
+new projects apart from mainline development, which are hard to fit in among
+the normal day-to-day development work. This is particularily important for the
+Hurd, as innovative uses are crucial to show the benefits of the unique
+architecture. Several such projects came into being through the GSoC program
+over the past years.
+
+Moreover, the Google Summer of Code is a good opportunity to get valuable input from new people, as well as
spreading technical and other knowledge about the Hurd among actual and
potential contributors.