Student Application Deadline for GSoC coming closer

By: Ingo Renner

Just to remind our prospective students for Google Summer of Code: The deadline for your applications is this Friday, April 3rd, 12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC.

So if you haven't done so yet, hand in your applications now!

About Google Summer of Code

Historically, Google Summer of Code has brought together nearly 2,500 students with over 180 open source projects to create millions of lines of code. We’re looking for mentors and students to join us in making 2009 the best Summer of Code yet!  We’ll be offering successful student contributors a 4500 USD stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for three months.

The Google Summer of Code program is designed to encourage student participation in open source development. Kicking off in 2005, the program has several goals: 

• Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development 
• Provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer 
• Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette, etc.) 
• Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all 
• Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers

Google will accept applications from open source projects from March 9 - 13, 2009. Student applications will be accepted from March 23 - April 3, 2009.

Full details on requirements for participating, including how to apply and more on the all-important t-shirt at

http://code.google.com/soc

Information regarding TYPO3 and Google Summer of Code can be found at http://typo3.org/gsoc2009.

 

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