[LUGSB] Google Summer of Code

[Josef Sipek]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:18:45PM -0500, Mark Drago wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> I'm not sure if all of you have seen this, so I figured I would post it 
> here.  Google has been sponsoring the 'Google Summer of Code' for a few 
> years now.  The basic idea is that students make contributions to open 
> source projects during the summer and Google pays the student a 
> stipend.  It's a great thing in basically every way possible.  I'm sure 
> a lot of you would be interested in it.  The application deadline is 
> March 24th, so get those applications in.
> 
> More information is available here: http://code.google.com/soc/
 
Thanks Mark for posting this.

Google SoC is a very interesting way of getting to contribute to Open
Source. I know that there is at least one person on this mailing list who
did SoC last year, and as far as I know he enjoyed it.

And of course, contributing means that your name will be out there for
people to see. I think that this is a great way to get started, if you want
to work for a company doing open source development.
 
> Also, if one of you could print out a few of these posters and hang them 
> around the CS building and other places, it would help get the word out 
> about the Google Summer of Code and Gnome's involvement in it: 
> http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2007/Poster

I see, a shameless plug for Gnome, Thanks Mark ;)

Just for the record, there are many open source projects of all different
types of software - ranging from desktop environments to version control
systems to kernel code.

Also, if you happen to be active in a open source project, I'd suggest that
you mention SoC to the people who run in. It is a great way to get work
done, and have more people exposed to your software.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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