Summer of Code
Start your emacs! Google is doing a code bounty-style program for students, and calling it the "Summer of Code". Here's how it works: Google has paired up with 8 open source groups (like Ubuntu and Apache). Students can browse a list of software projects that need to be done (a menu editor is on Ubuntu's list!), and the students submit an application before June 14th to Google to write a program. Google and the participating organizations will determine if the application will be granted (200 slots are available). If a student is approved, they will recieve $500USD to get them started. On September 1st, all the students hand in their projects, and the participating organizations look at the work. If requirements were met, the student recieves another $4,000USD. Open source coding will be done, and students will be paid $4,500USD for their work.
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
It's times like these I wish I knew more C++, and how to write code for larger projects. Damn! But it's still cool to see this being done. I was surprised at how many students in UBC.CS still use Internet Explorer (Asians/East Indians seem to use IE, while the caucasians seem to be more into the open source stuff).
1 comment:
It is rather strange that so many people are still crawling around with MSIE... but then again, if we're to profile races, Indians and Asians are the ones getting more money these days, what with outsourcing and whatnot.
Still, I suppose Open Source will always be the one place that's really pushing the envelope forward in terms of innovation. We just need to stop patents - or register them and never sue for infringement. But nobody's got the financial power of IBM to do that :)
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