Google's Summer of Code

One for the students out there.

Google are running a program called Summer of Code where there offering 4500 USD to develop open source software. More info on the participant FAQ.

The Perl Foundation appears to be one of the mentoring organisations (they get 500 USD per project).

I know four and a half grand (even if it's that silly American stuff :-) would have made been darn useful back when I was a student - and that's when it was a lot of money! So take a look.

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Re: Google's Summer of Code by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Jun 02, 2005 at 08:29 UTC
Stonehenge has volunteered to be mentors for TPF. If you would like us to help you with your project, let me know. I'm especially interested in anyone in Chicago who might want to participate since we're also thinking about sponsoring students for their school's internship/class credit programs. -- brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>	[reply]
Re: Google's Summer of Code by monarch (Priest) on Jun 01, 2005 at 13:36 UTC
I think it's a grand idea. Although I'd rather not admit it, though, I was too immature when I was at university to actually perform any meaningful work on something like an open source project. In fact I didn't become mildly useful at programming until about a year into my first professional job. But still, when Google go out and sponser open source development you have to agree this is a great thing for the world in general! I love it! I'm a big fan of progressing the world as a whole, not just a monopoly organisation at a time. And university students are bound to be influenced most by 4500USD type sums of money, as opposed to some of us professional programmers which would clear that in a month.	[reply]
Re: Google's Summer of Code by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jun 07, 2005 at 15:48 UTC
The rather nifty Perl CMS Bricolage have a list of Summer of Code projects. For those who are interested.	[reply]
Re: Google's Summer of Code by jonadab (Parson) on Jun 01, 2005 at 11:31 UTC
I know four and a half grand (even if it's that silly American stuff :-) would have made been darn useful back when I was a student Yeah, I could have used that money to buy my textbooks for a whole year :-?	[reply]