[Bradford] Google Summer of Code

[Alice Kaerast]

Hi,

Student applications for Google Summer of Code open on 10th March, so now
is a good time to be thinking about applying (or more likely encouraging
those eligible to do so) and talking to the mentoring organisations about
possible projects.

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers students stipends to
write code for open source projects.  They work with a wide number of open
source projects including some very specialised ones, so you're bound to
find something of interest.  To be eligible you just need to be a student
(typically at university) and be eligible to work in the country you will
reside in over summer.

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014

Gnome have a separate and similar project for women too
http://gnome.org/opw/

Oh, and some of you may be interested in the High Scalability article on
WhatsApp's architecture and processes behind their billions of messages a
day -
http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/26/the-whatsapp-architecture-facebook-bought-for-19-billion.html

Regards
Alice
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