Hi all: This mail is a heads up for the students who want to participate in Google Summer of Code 2008 program.
Student applications will be accepted from Monday, March 24, 2008. The next 12 days may be a great opportunity to think through your interests, project you want to work on and related preparations. While there are large number of projects, to which the students can apply for, here are the indicative ones that the Society recommends. . FreeBSD http://wiki.freebsd.org/ . Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ . OpenSuSe Linux http://en.opensuse.org/Summer_of_Code_2008 . NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-projects.html . Apache http://wiki.apache.org/general/ http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 . Drupal http://groups.drupal.org/soc-2008 . PHP http://www.php.net/ideas.php . PostgreSQL http://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode.html . KDE 4 project http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-beta2.php (2007) http://code.google.com/soc/2007/kde/about.html http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Welcome_to_KDE_TechBase . Firefox/Mozilla http://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:CommunityProgram http://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode08 . Xwindow (X.org) http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas . Ruby - Ruby Central (2007) http://code.google.com/soc/2007/ruby/about.html http://www.rubycentral.org/ . JRuby http://wiki.jruby.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2008 . Trac http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/wiki/Google%20Summer%20of%20Code%202008 . Joomla http://dev.joomla.org/ In a nutshell, The program invites students who meet their eligibility criteria to post applications that detail the software-coding project they wish to perform. These applications are then evaluated by the corresponding mentoring organization. Every participating organization must provide mentors for each of the project ideas received, if the organization is of the opinion that the project would benefit them. The mentors then rank the applications and submit the ranked list to Google. Google then decides how many projects each organization gets, and selects the top-n applications for that organization, where n is the number of projects assigned to them. For a quick overview of the GSOC program, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code GSoC 2008 presentation is here http://google-summer-of-code.googlecode.com/files/GSoC2008-presentation.pdf GSoC 2008 main website is at http://code.google.com/soc/2008 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) is here http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html There is also a Wiki maintained at http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/WikiStart An indicative list of the organizations that participated in Summer of Code 2007 is here http://code.google.com/soc/2007/ If you are thinking about projects, need assistance or clarifications on approach/feasability, please reply to this thread only. So put on your thinking caps and set the ball rolling. This is a great opportunity to not only contribute to Open Source but also to make your mark ! thanks Saifi.
