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Google Summer of Code Expands

Posted by Zonk on from the more-the-merrier dept.

bakotaco wrote with news from the Summer of Code site: "We're Expanding the Summer of Code... After spot reviewing the applications we've received for the Summer of Code, we were struck with their high quality. As a result, we were able to increase the funds available to support 400 students, double our original number of 200. While this doesn't allow us to take all applicants, we thought that this would be a terrific thing to do for the mentoring organizations, the students, open source software and computer science."

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  1. latest breakdown by molnarcs · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here.. Top ten projects:
    Well... we're over 5300 proposals now from about 4000 applicants. Here
    are the current numbers:

    696 google
    486 asf
    466 gaim
    309 gnome
    289 other
    245 mono
    214 psf
    211 kde
    207 freebsd
    170 ubuntu
    Rember, this is on 13 June.
  2. Re:Call me a cynic. by dj_whitebread · · Score: 3, Informative

    They aren't taking more submissions. They are just picking twice as many people from the original batch of applicants.

  3. Ideas for applicants by Ingolfke · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Gallery project has a list of ideas for Google Summer of Code coders. This is a very nice, mature, PHP application used for managing pictures online.

    Another great project that would be interesting to work with is Jinzora. Jinzora is a web-based music streaming/archiving application. It may be one of the best around.

    Both applications are GPLed, fairly mature, actively developed and used, and are just plain useful tools to use.

  4. Re:It's the summer of code, 2005 by swiftstream · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your IP will be licensed under a license chosen by the open source project you will be working on. E.g., if you work on a GPL project, your code would be under the GPL.

    Next piece of FUD, please?

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