Google Sponsoring 630 For Summer Of Code

One hundred and one projects covering operating systems, content management, programming languages, and other open source areas will occupy the 630 students selected to participate in Google's Summer of Code. Google will follow up 2005's successful Summer of Code this year. The 2006 version contains projects from 101 mentoring organizations, and 630 aspiring coders will forgo some of their time in the rewarded for their progress and completion of their projects. Students receive $4500 over the course of the program, while the sponsoring organization receives $500. The list of organizations contains some of the most notable and respected open source projects in the world. Techies who have a non-Windows machine running somewhere most likely have several of these projects on those machines. Google Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.