[ I probably should've sent this here sooner, but I only just thought of sending here, so better late than never :-) ]
Hi, We're participating in Google's Summer of Code as a mentor organisation again, and I thought it worth spreading some publicity on mailing lists, since there may be some interested people here. * What's Google Summer of Code? Essentially it's Google paying students to work on open source projects and being mentored in those projects, producing useful code and learning useful skills along the way. * How is BBC Research/ Kamaelia involved? Like last year we're a mentor organisation, Kamaelia is the open source project that project applications are invited for. It's aim is to make highly concurrent systems natural to create and simple to maintain. (given a choice of forces the we choose the latter) We seem to be having some success in this and have a number of systems we've built using Kamaelia. Kamaelia is primarily focussed around building networked, multimedia systems, tools and applications, however Kamaelia is a generic component framework & toolset. The current implementation is in python, but the approach and concepts are portable with a proof of concept in python. Our project ideas and guidance page is here: * http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/SummerOfCode2007 However, we're also interested other ideas beyond that, especially systems that use Kamaelia that can act as exemplars. To give an idea of potential scope, a list of components can be found here: * http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Components * Who can Apply ? You need to be a student *somewhere* now, or in september enrolled at a university degree course or similar level of institution/degree. * When is the deadline ? Monday midnight. * URL? http://code.google.com/soc/ Please feel free to forward this to any students or student groups you would find this interesting ! :-) Regards, Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior Research Engineer, BBC Research, Technology Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kamaelia Project Lead, http://kamaelia.sf.net/ New Broadcasting House, BBC Manchester, M60 1SJ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
