Summer of Code

As I'm sure many of you have already seen, Google has just launched
"Summer of Code" for 2006. You can read about it on slashdot, or you
can visit the main SoC page here:

     http://code.google.com/soc/

Last year, SoC was a huge success for the Subversion project: five of
our eight students completed their projects, and two of them even
became committers. The students gained some great experience (and
$4500 each for summer employment), and Subversion got a bunch of new
features (path-based access control in svnserve, Ruby bindings, Python
binding improvements, ...), as well as $500 per student.

Karl is on vacation right now, so Fitz and I are stepping in as our
project's contact points for SoC. (Convenient anyway, since SoC is
actually being run by our team at Google!) At the moment, SoC is busy
registering open source projects and mentors interested in hosting
students. In a few weeks, the webapp will allow students to enter
application proposals, and we'll get to look through them and choose
some small set.

As a developer community, we need to do two things in the next couple
of weeks:

  1) Decide how many students we'd like to mentor.

     Last year we mentored 8 students. The web form asks how many
     we'd ideally like to have, and at some point Google will repsond
     and tell us how many internships they're willing to allot us.

  2) Come up with a list of project ideas for students.

     Here's a link to last year's ideas page, which we'll need to
     update:

        http://subversion.tigris.org/project_tasks.html

Please send thoughts, ideas, feedback!

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Received on Sun Apr 16 03:54:29 2006