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OpenWengo Code Camp

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-to-do-with-sleepless-nights dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that OpenWengo launched its first Code Camp a few days ago. The contest is apparently following the same process as Google Summer of Code, but is mainly focused on VoIP software. There are 14 projects for students to work on. Among them, a couple pretty interesting ones, like creating an XUL interface editor. There is a 3500 Euro stipend at stake for students completing their project. I also find interesting that most of the available projects can be reused by any software project using a GPL-compatible license."

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  1. Re:What is this? by castoridae · · Score: 4, Informative

    Isn't this what most internship programs are about? Spread the word about the company, get students hooked on their software/tools/philosophy/widgets, and keep an eye out to recruit the best ones as full time employees.

  2. Launching my own summer code camp by Revolver4ever · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's called "Finish-my-next-CS-project" summer of code camp. Kids, help out a poor college student =/

    In all seriousness, these code camps are great for everybody involved. Experience for the programmers; good, "hearty" code for the company. Even if you don't win IMHO the experience is well worth it especially for somebody who has never programmed outside of a class before.

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  3. For a moment... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought the title said "Winnebago Code Camp". Unless you're programming the spaceship from Spaceballs, computers and Winnebagos don't mix well.

  4. Attention! by fm6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're an OSS project, and you want people to join in, contribute, admire or whatever, please, please, PLEASE, explain WTF you are and what you're doing on the main page of your web site. Don't make people hunt for this information. Otherwise we're likely to infer that you're just another overenthusiastic underorganized OSS group that has nothing interesting going on.

    1. Re:Attention! by LordLucless · · Score: 3, Informative

      Well, you can get a decent amount of info if you click the "About" button in the main menu, available from the home page. It doesn't give you as much technical info as the page you linked does, but you'll at least find out Wengo is a SIP-compatible VoiP thingy.

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  5. Euro to USD by mattwarden · · Score: 4, Informative

    3,500.00 EUR = 4,381.44 USD

  6. Did they pay their taxes by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If they were using VOIP, they better check in with Uncle Sam with all their doings.

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    1. Re:Did they pay their taxes by fm6 · · Score: 4, Informative

      More true than you know. Whereas the U.S. is personified by an old geezer wearing a weird stovepipe hat, France is personified by Marianne, a rather attractive lady. For a long time, her official likeness was based on various sexy Frenchwomen, starting with Brigitte Bardot and ending with Laetitia Casta. Since 2002, alas, the model has been anonymous.

  7. Ah, the decades-old anti-GPL myths come up again. by jbn-o · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Corporate sponsorship doesn't seem to be a goal or a problem for GPL-covered programs, unless you want to argue that IBM, Redhat, and HP aren't corporations. But why should corporations be given primacy? Users rights are far more important and happen to be eminently compatible with making money as well.

    There also seems to be no lack of talent in programs licensed under the GNU GPL; such as the GNU utility programs which people seem to prefer against free and proprietary alternatives alike because they're free and so highly capable (even software proprietors including Apple agree; MacOS X is compiled with GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection).

    Perhaps your Silicon Valley-based office should consider doing something more competitive than relying on GPL-incompatible licensing and namecalling.

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