[Metalab] Google's Summer of Code 08

[Chris Hager]

Hey all,

Google's "Summer of Code" [1] just starts again. It may be a 
controversial topic itself, but has good influence on many open source 
projects and communities.

Today the student application period started -- for 1 week it's now 
possible to apply for a paid internship with your project idea, or one 
you might have found on the mentor organisations [2] ideas page - and 
preferably already discussed it with them.

Basically, it's a paid internship to develop open source code. 3-4 
months work, $ 5000 for each accepted student. The only prerequisite is 
that you have to be enrolled at any university with april 14th 2008.

Just so you know - it sure will be fun, a rich experience and good money :)

- Chris

[1] http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html
[2] http://eflow.org/wiki/index.php?Mentors_by_language