Summer of Code Now Taking Student Applications

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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Wikipedia

[Raul654]

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

Internet2 is a mentoring organization

[shalunov]

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

Re:This is good

[chrisd]

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

Many, many other projects need help

[jd]

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.)