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Mr.Klean

02-27-2008, 11:34 PM

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/02/27/google-summer-of-code-2008-applications-accepted-soon/

Google Summer of Code 2008 - applications accepted soon

Posted Feb 27th 2008 6:00PM by Dolores Parker (http://www.downloadsquad.com/bloggers/dolores-parker)
Filed under: Developer (http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/developer/), News (http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/news/), Google (http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/google/), Open Source (http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/open-source/)

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/02/soc.jpg-%28jpeg-image,-824x307-pixels%29.jpg (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/)

Google is gearing up for their 4th year Summer of Code 2008 (http://code.google.com/soc/2008/), where students developers get paid $4,500 to write code for various open source projects over the summer, starting about May 26 and ending around August 11.

Students are paired with mentors, (a group running open source projects), such as Mozilla Foundation (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/25/happy-birthday-mozilla-or-open-source-can-be-delicious/), Drupal (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/02/19/drupal-6-is-released/), OpenOffice.org (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/09/15/download-openoffice-org-2-3-a-few-days-early/), Wikimedia Foundation, One Laptop Per Child (http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/09/24/one-laptop-per-child-give-one-get-one/) and Google, to name a few from the 2007 program.

To qualify as a student, you have to be enrolled at a college or university as of April 14, 2008 and no, you don't have to be a computer engineer major to apply, but it is helpful to know how to code. Sorry to those who hail from Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Mynamar (Burma), who are ineligible to participate due to U.S. law.

Google is expecting over 130 organizations to be paired with over 900 students for 2008. The goal of the program is to inspire students to work on open source projects, and to help open source projects recruit more developers.

Applications for mentor organizations are being accepted March 3-12, 2008 and student applications will be accepted March 24-31, 2008.

Dan Cardin

02-28-2008, 01:59 AM

there are so many things like this once you're in college :), cant wait :p
(by "things like this" i mean you get free access to stuff and other stuff like this)

ZaSz

02-28-2008, 02:42 AM

I wish i was collage i could use that money for a 4gig pc and an Ipod

squnky

02-28-2008, 05:49 AM

currently wishing i was enrolled @ a college..

lol maybe i can go under my sister's name :p

Mr.Klean

03-01-2008, 02:41 AM

currently wishing i was enrolled @ a college..

lol maybe i can go under my sister's name :p

Sex change = win?

Floor66

03-01-2008, 01:51 PM

Eugeniu

03-10-2008, 01:46 AM

I have to wait so long till im in college :0
Im 12 now. but already know midlevel-Scar, HTML, lil PHP, and the kind of code for CounterStrike (with aliases etc), and wanna learn more :)

Not to advertise, but my site is what i made with HTML when i was 10.
Sorry for the ads round ur head but thats what i make cash with >.<

At age 10 I had my own paid domain and was able to set up Joomla all by myself :). At age 9 I ran my own php based subdomain (yes, a real subdomain with my own php coding). And at age 8 I could do what you can do now on html :).

Seroko

10-09-2008, 01:52 AM

All you saying you wish you was in college is pretty stupid, they are basically paying you to work for them, this isn't free money, yeah its a learning experience and kinda like an extra class you get payed to attend. Trust me you will be paying a LOT more then 4,500$ going to college. And open source failz anyway imo.

Bobarkinator

10-14-2008, 03:48 AM

And open source failz anyway imo.

WHAT!?!?! opensource.org

Are you just inviting people to put viruses in your programs?

If you're just saying open source fails because you think it's all random people and no big corporations do anything open source then eclipse.org, netbeans.org.

Other applications that are open source: VLC media player(probably the best media player I've ever used because it plays virtually everything.)

Also check out osliving.com

Widget

10-14-2008, 04:16 AM

WHAT!?!?! opensource.org

Are you just inviting people to put viruses in your programs?

If you're just saying open source fails because you think it's all random people and no big corporations do anything open source then eclipse.org, netbeans.org.

Other applications that are open source: VLC media player(probably the best media player I've ever used because it plays virtually everything.)

Also check out osliving.com

You don't need to make too big a deal over it :rolleyes:. He probably hasn't ever used some sort of Linux and seen all that it actually has, or how open-source has helped pretty much the entire internet evolve.

Mostly a guess, buy I bet srl-forums runs using Apache on Debian (most servers do, and they're both open-source)

Edit: Forgot my original reply, which was that I might try to do this next year if being enrolled for dual-credit stuff in my local community college counts. I could really use a reason to fully learn a programming language :)

Edit edit: Massive gravedig?

Bobarkinator

10-14-2008, 04:20 AM

You don't need to make too big a deal over it :rolleyes:.

I'm pretty passionate about open source ;)

Seroko

10-14-2008, 04:56 AM

I personally do not believe everything should be open source for multiple reasons 2 off the top of my head are:

1) You worked hard on your program why hand out the source for other people to steal from? If there was any profit there its gone.
2) People taking an open source project and recompiling it with a virus.

And I got an infraction for massive gravedigging in an area where a FULL YEAR of threads doesn't even fill up a PAGE? It was like the 5th from the top, I didn't notice at the time it was a couple months old.

GoF

10-14-2008, 11:51 AM

I personally do not believe everything should be open source for multiple reasons 2 off the top of my head are:

1) You worked hard on your program why hand out the source for other people to steal from? If there was any profit there its gone.
2) People taking an open source project and recompiling it with a virus.

Kind of retarded that you need to "own" your code. And funny that you think everyone will go after your code. And also, you don't need a programs sourcecode to bind a virus to it so the 2nd reason makes no sense.

Knoot

10-14-2008, 02:32 PM

opensource owns you cant say it doesn't because nobody would really have time to learn how to script if nothing were opensource. That means no tutorials and how fun is it to guess the lines? -.-

Bobarkinator

10-14-2008, 09:55 PM

And I got an infraction for massive gravedigging in an area where a FULL YEAR of threads doesn't even fill up a PAGE? It was like the 5th from the top, I didn't notice at the time it was a couple months old.

You got a warning. It doesn't matter if their is one thread in a section, doesn't mean you can gravedig it.

n3ss3s

10-15-2008, 05:30 PM

Bob, you should've added "mmkay" after the "bad" ;)

Seroko, your second reason also fails in common sense. You have a habit of checking a program's source code at the official page and then searching for
"<program> free no virus xxx keygen" at isohunt for the actual download? :(

Bobarkinator

10-15-2008, 09:56 PM