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Google Summer of Code Announces Mentor Projects

Posted by timothy on from the everyone-gets-a-free-mentors-album-too dept.

mithro writes "As everyone should already know, Google is running the Summer of Code again this year. For those who don't know, GSoC is where Google funds student's to participate in Open Source projects and has been running for 5 years, bringing together over 2600 students and 2500 mentors from nearly 100 countries worldwide. Google has just announced the projects which will be mentor organizations this year. It includes a great list of Open Source projects from a wide range of different genres, include content management systems, compilers, many programming languages and even a bunch of games!"

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  1. A real education by rm999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "GSoC is where Google funds student's to participate in Open Source projects"

    Maybe they should fund a class in grammar and spelling first :P

  2. Student's? by zindorsky · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google funds student's

    Google funds a student's what?

    Here's a link to explain 3rd grade grammar:

    Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots

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    1. Re:Student's? by bar-agent · · Score: 2, Funny

      Um, I once accidently a student's...

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      i'd hit it so hard, if you pulled me out you'd be the king of britain [bash.org]
  3. The project that will end in a few years! by Sybert42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Opencog and the Singularity Institute. When it's done, there won't be any more summer of codes. You'll become the code--seriously.