Summer of Code Org Application Deadline Approaches 39
chrisd writes "Just wanted to drop a line reminding open source projects that they only have until March 12th (Pacific time) to apply for Google's Summer of Code. We are accepting more organizations this year than last because we want to add a couple hundred more students to the program. If you are part of a great project or know someone who is, we'd love to see an application. Please note that this is for organizations and not for prospective students, that's not for a few more weeks (see the program timeline)!"
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Re:Google redeems itself (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Google redeems itself (Score:3, Insightful)
How many SoC "news" do we have to get? (Score:3, Insightful)
What's next? Do we need a cron job to submit the same Google news every other week now? Or can we get SOME valuable news here?
Re:newbie suitable (Score:2, Insightful)
Why not be grateful? (Score:4, Insightful)
Why? Are you not supposed to be grateful for anything that anyone does (partly) in their own interest?
Anyway, just wanted an opportunity to say that, as a frequent user of free software, I myself am very grateful for these annual contributions to the open source community.
Google Earth? (Score:4, Insightful)
Do you know what the phrase "undeserved sense of entitlement" means?
What worries me about these projects (Score:3, Insightful)
I've seen a lot of summer of code projects that look really cool, but then you never see the feature ending up in the final product.
I think the summer of code thing is a good idea in that it gets students involved in the open source community, but I hope that the projects spend some time thinking about who will maintain the code after the kid is back in school, and I suspect that doesn't happen.