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Google Announces Summer of Code 2008

Posted by kdawson on from the endless-sunshine dept.

morrison writes "The 2008 Google Summer of Code is on. We have discussed this four-year-old tradition before (2005, 2006, 2007). Google will once again be hosting a program that gives computer science students a $4,500 stipend to work on open source software projects. Last year, Google funded over 900 students' projects in more than 90 countries. As noted in the program FAQ, this year they hope to do even more. The #gsoc IRC channel on Freenode is already buzzing with activity."

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  1. 4th year in a row? by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 5, Funny

    My open source Visual Basic extension for Word 97 has been rejected 3 times already; I'm gonna try one last time.

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  2. Re:What should get precedence? by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obama needs some tweaks.

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  3. Re:What should get precedence? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fix the Firefox memory leak! No wait, something more realistic... how's about world peace?

  4. Re:What should get precedence? by Nimey · · Score: 4, Funny

    The anti-ballistic-chair defense system. Google's going to need it some day.

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  5. Re:What should get precedence? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

    Emacs, though thought by some to be older than the Renaissance, could enter one...

    Regarding the Obama ad served on this page: "It's a cookbook!!!"

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  6. Re:write a decent reporting tool by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2, Funny

    No way, man! Do you know how boring that would be to develop? What we really need is transparency and alpha channel blending effects. And skins! There is a serious dearth of quality skins for mplayer!

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