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Summer of Code Now Taking Student Applications

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fame-and-fortune dept.

chrisd writes "Just wanted to let you know that we've opened up the student application process for the Summer of Code. We've signed up ~100 mentoring organizations this year, including Apache, Postgres, Xiph, The Shmoo Group, Drupal, Gallery and many others. We're accepting applications through May 8th this year."

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  1. Re:Age requirement by mikesd81 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because I'm sure you might have to sign a contract of some sort.

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  2. Wikipedia by Raul654 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wikipedia *always* needs more coders - the 3-5 that we have just are not enough. Here's the relavant page

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  3. Internet2 is a mentoring organization by shalunov · · Score: 4, Informative

    Internet2 needs you as a coder this summer. </shameless plug>

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  4. Re:This is good by chrisd · · Score: 5, Informative

    We're trying to come up with a high school program for next year. We couldn't figure one out for this year.

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  5. Many, many other projects need help by jd · · Score: 4, Informative
    This isn't a diss of SoC - quite the opposite. I really appreciate their efforts to get people into coding and to organize an event on a very impressive scale. That is no mean feat!


    What I would like to say, though, is that I noticed at least a few people felt left out - their projects weren't accepted, or they didn't meet one or another entry requirement. (Hell, I've a whole bunch of projects that I could use help with! I'm working on some games, some crypto stuff, some utilities... Nothing quite like the smell of shorted-out synapses!)


    I really do urge those who don't want (or can't) code for SoC but do want to get involved in a project that needs help to contact any of those who are mentioning projects being short of coders. We can't all pay or give prizes, but volunteer work on any serious project can be enjoyable and can be a good addition to a resume in some cases. (Volunteer work experience is still work experience.)

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  6. Re:BeOS/Haiku was rejected. by chrisd · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, we just had so many mentors apply and among them quite a few operating systems were accepted. Maybe next year.

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  7. Work on Mars! by notyou2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check it out... you can do work for NASA Mars missions: http://code.google.com/soc/mars/about.html

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  8. A small problem? by Godji · · Score: 3, Informative

    First of all I'm not trying to troll - Summer of Code is a great initiative! Please take this as a question, not as critique.

    I see a small potential problem however: In some 3 months, one is supposed to implement a project. Fair enough, but doesn't that usually require significant familiarity with the code of that project? How is a student expected to have this familiarity? Does he/she get it while working on the project or is he/she supposed to already have it?

    This is a point that has stopped many enthusiasts. They are afreaid that, while they are experienced coders, they have no idea how Program X works, and are afraid to even try to extend it.

    Has this been adressed in any way?