Google Launches Summer of Code

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 31, 2005 @12:28PM from the better-than-the-summer-of-love dept.

chrisd writes "We're very happy to launch the Summer of Code today, and I thought Slashdot readers would be interested and might even help us spread the word (We have a flyer, even). The program is designed to give computer science, and other, students a stipend ($4500) while they learn to release and create open source software. We're working with a variety of Open Source software foundations and organizations and we hope to sign up around 200 developers. We hope the end result will be more open source developers! I'll be pleased to answer questions in the comment stream about this program. Thanks!"

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Re:Direction by chrisd · 2005-05-31 13:19 · Score: 5, Informative

We welcome those groups, but we had a limited amount of time to corral everyone. They can still join in. This is why we posted the mentorship faq on the site.
Man, the 2 minute posting restriction is killing me today.

Chris

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