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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Who is not eligible? by Alain+Williams · 2005-05-31 19:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic
1. Google employees, interns, contractors, family members, roommates, or citizens from the countries on the US State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism, which we are bound by law from engaging in commerce with.
I haven't seen that list recently, but presumably it counts me out since I live in England and we illigally invaded Iraq a couple of years ago ... can someone remind me of the name of the other big country that was involved ?