<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">ruben d canlas jr</b> <<a href="mailto:rubencanlas@gmail.com">rubencanlas@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:35 AM<br>
Subject: [plug-misc] Google Summer of Code 2008 is On!<br>To: <a href="mailto:plug-misc@lists.linux.org.ph">plug-misc@lists.linux.org.ph</a><br><br><br><br><div>GSoC needs both students and mentors. Students take $4,500 each (may change, but this is last year's grant). Let's put more Filipino students and mentors here! This is not a contest, per se, so the more, the many-er :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you have more questions, go to the FAQ or email me.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's an excerpt from the GSoC FAQs (<a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_what_is" target="_blank">What is Google Summer of
Code?)</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><h2 style="font-size: large;"><a name="1185b1b1fc0b8599_0.1_about_gsoc">About Google Summer of Code</a></h2>
<p><a name="1185b1b1fc0b8599_0.1_what_is">1. What is <i>Google Summer of Code</i>?</a></p><p><i>Google Summer of Code</i> (GSoC) is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be working with a several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Historically, the program has brought together over 1,500 students with over 130 open source projects to create millions of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2005/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">2005</a>, is now in its fourth year. If are feeling nostalgic or are interested in learning more about the projects we have worked with in the past, check out the <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2006/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">2006</a> and <a href="http://code.google.com/soc/2007/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);" target="_blank">2007</a> program pages.</p>
<p>While the majority of past student participants were enrolled in university Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs, GSoCers come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds, from computational biology to mining engineering. Many of our past participants had never participated in an open-source project before GSoC; others used the GSoC stipend as an opportunity to concentrate fully on their existing open source coding activities over the summer. Many of our "graduates" have later become program mentors.</p>
<p><a name="1185b1b1fc0b8599_0.1_goals">2. What are the goals of this program?</a></p><p><i>Google Summer of Code</i> has several goals:</p><ul style="margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em;">Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all;</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em;">Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development;</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em;">Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers;</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em;">Provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer (think "flip bits, not burgers");</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.25em;">
Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette).</li></ul></span></div>
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