[YLUG] Google Summer of Code application period still open

[Gavin Atkinson]

Forwarded on behalf of a friend - about this year's Google Summer of Code.
It's a great way for students to earn a chunk of money over summer while
helping an open source project.  There are over 200 mentoring
organisations this year, so have a look see if there's a project that you
are interested in.  The details below are about FreeBSD, but if you're
interested in a different project have a look at the Google link below and
see if they are participating this year.  The deadline for applications
has now been extended to the 7th April, so you've still got a week...

Gavin


-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:25:19 +0000 (GMT)

Just a reminder that Google's Summer of Code programme is now open for
student proposals.  If you wouldn't mind forwarding this out to your local
CS student mailing lists (etc), that would be great.  The timeline is
quite tight and not well aligned with Easter vacations, at least around
here, but I think there's still the opportunity to get some great student
proposals in.  Students are welcome to peruse and expand on the ideas we
have on our ideas list, or propose their own ideas, and should feel free
to contact FreeBSD developers, especially those on the contact list, if
they have any questions.

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:31:03 +0000 (GMT)
From: Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org>
To: announce at FreeBSD.org


    Summer of Code - Get Paid to Work on Open Source This Summer

Google Summer of Code is an exciting opportunity for students to "intern"
with an open source project for a summer. The FreeBSD Project, as one of
the most successful and oldest open source projects, is an excellent place
to do this internship. Founded in 1993, the project now consists of
several hundred "committers" and tens of thousands of contributors.
FreeBSD is the foundation for many commercial products, including Apple's
Mac OS X, NetApp's OnTap/GX, Juniper's JunOS, as well countless other
products, from Cisco anti-spam appliances to Isilon's cluster storage
hardware, and is widely used in the Internet Service Provider and
corporate IT worlds. Many of these sponsors participate daily in the
FreeBSD community, and students have the opportunity to develop software
in an exciting environment with many real world applications, and under
the mentorship of experienced developers.

After the summer ends, many of our students are sponsored by Google or the
FreeBSD Foundation to attend operating systems and open source conferences
to present on their work, and a significant number go on to become FreeBSD
developers. It's also a great job networking opportunity!

There are many dozens of example project ideas listed on the FreeBSD web
site here:

    http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html

and for many other open source organizations as well:

    http://code.google.com/soc

Some of the example projects include working on embedded operating
systems, unix filesystems, network performance and implementing new
network protocols, and more.  Most sample project ideas include developers
you can contact to discuss a proposal, and we recommend doing so in
advance of submitting a proposal.  Strong C language skills are
recommended for most projects.


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Gavin Atkinson           Systems Administrator & Programmer
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