[Bradford] Google Summer of Code

[John R. Hudson]

KDE, who have been approved as a mentoring organisation, have published
a list of ideas and invitation to apply even if you want to do something
different - also some useful tips on how to go about it even if you
don't intend to apply to KDE.

http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2014/Ideas

John
--
On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 19:55 +0000, Alice Kaerast wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Bradford mailing list
> Bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford