Hi Saifi, Thanks for your SoC 2008 program Info dashboard !!
As a developer i am not eligible to participate in this SoC Program !! if i am wrong Please let me know this kind of programs !! I have quite a bit experience developing components, modules for Drupal and Joomla !! Please help me how to join in these communities. Thanks, Thomas. On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
