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Google Launches Summer of Code 2007

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-once-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Google has announced that it will be doing Summer of Code again this year. The program looks pretty much the same this year but they have built time into the program schedule for students to get up to speed before they start coding. Nice job, Google."

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  1. Re:Not helping the problem... by Trogre · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For half the world, they have.

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    "Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
  2. Re:project benefits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gaim devs have years of practice doing exactly what you describe. If you had any familiarity with the project you shouldn't have expected anything else to have happened. Getting some SOC coders to work on the project is not going to completely turn it around.