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Google Summer of Code Announces Mentor Projects
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!"
I'm just intimidated by the magnitude of the requested projects. Anyone have any experience with GSoC? How much mentoring do you tend to get? I'd hate to sign up, then not know where to get started, or hit a brick wall, and be told "well you should have thought of that before you applied".
Debian is welcoming students once again this year. I was a 2008 GSoC student at Debian and am returning this year to admin the GSoC program at Debian. I had a very exciting experience, participating in meetups with a lot of Debian developers all over Europe and I recommend you to apply at Debian to share this experience.
We have a huge range of project possibilities, from our famous packaging system (.deb ftw) to debian-specific developer tools and infrastructure (want to work on our multi-arch distributed build farm ?) or hardware support (because Debian runs everywhere, from tiny ARM devices to country-wide computing grids). We have you all covered.
Remember that Debian and its derivatives are the largest group of Linux distributions in the world. That's a huge community you'll be working with, and I should say, an amazing concentration of talent.
If you are interested, visit: http://wiki.debian.org/gsoc, join us on IRC on: #debian-soc on irc.debian.org or follow us on twitter of identi.ca (DebianGSoC).
Also, see our mailing-list announcement for more pratical information.
i recall one student's work was pretty much ignored. He modified gnome so different workspaces could have different background images.
maybe the changes were too obtrusive or unmaintainable, but to me it points to a poor mentor. The mentor should have helped the student implement the changes in such a way that they could be accepted.
see the student's blog with the gnome bugzilla links.
I'm applying with a group of students from UMass to write Java bindings for the LLVM intermediate-code generation libraries. Anyone want to help?
The Perl Foundation was accepted as an organization in Google Summer of Code 2009! I am excited to be the organization administrator.
Students interested in learning more about applying for GSoC2009 with TPF can join the mailing list and read up on The Perl Foundation wiki . For breaking news you can follow me at @dukeleto or join us on IRC on #soc-help on irc.perl.org .
Parrot Foundation is within the umbrella of The Perl Foundation this year, so if you want to work on the hottest virtual machine that just hit 1.0.0, then you are in the right place.
Remember, student applications are due at ~Noon PDT April 3rd 2009. That is surprisingly soon.
Hope to see lots of great applications coming down the pipe!
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