WinLibre has been selected this year again to be a mentoring organization.

We’re looking for students to join us in making 2009 the best Summer of Code yet!

Google will be offering successful student contributors a 4500 USD stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for three months.

The Google Summer of Code program is designed to encourage student participation in open source development. Kicking off in 2005, the program has several goals:

  • Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development
  • Provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer
  • Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette, etc...)
  • Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all
  • Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers Google will accept student applications from March 23th to April 3rd 2009.

Full details on requirements for participating, including how to apply and more on the all-important t-shirt at http://socghop.appspot.com/

Find WinLibre proposals for Google Summer of Code 2009.

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