Google Warms Up A Summer Of Code

The search advertising company will support another Summer Of Code this year, where Google provides student developers with stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google's open source program manager Chris shared the news about Google's forthcoming Summer Of Code, a repeat of their previous effort to support developers and worthy open source projects. In 2005, Google received 8,744 applicants for the Summer of Code program. DiBona said 419 were accepted. Developers earn a $5000 stipend from Google for their work; $500 goes to the mentoring organization and $4500 to the developer. Should Google be the mentoring organization, the $500 would be rolled back into the Summer Of Code program. Quite a few organizations have already signed up as mentors since registration opened on April 11th. Apache, Python, Perl, FreeBSD, and Postgresql among others have places on the mentoring list. Those registrations run through May 1st. Prospective mentors for the program must provide a pool of project ideas, and staff to review proposals for those ideas or for "blue-sky" concepts that pertain to the mentor's organization. As an example, The project ideas on perl.org. Among those are several from the Perl 5 Google also wants those mentors to have understudies available to cover the original mentor's absences, should he or she have a vacation planned or otherwise be unavailable during the term of the project. Then, student proposals may be submitted from May 1st through May 8th. Mentoring organizations then review the proposals for the next two weeks, and contacts student developers to request more information or to indicate if their proposals have been accepted. After that, the coding process begins. Google will support a Slashnet, and by email. More information on the program may be found at the Summer Of Code Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web |