On Tuesday 18 March 2008 13:43:02 Michael wrote: > This just a short note to say that BBC Research has been accepted as a > mentor organisation for Google Summer of Code again this year (third > year!). Also Dirac applied seperately along with the Schroedinger project > and as a result dirac/schroedinger is also a mentor organisation this year.
Oh, just a note - for those that don't realise what Google Summer of Code is - it's where google will happily pay someone in (or about to enter) higher education for work over the summer on open source projects. The results are also open source. Links: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html Specifically Google pay students $4500 over the course of the summer for around 3 months full time work. Google also pay mentor orgs a small amount per mentor, in the past the BBC's waived this for various good reasons. The whole idea is to get students involved in Open Source/Free Software during their vacations, which they might otherwise spend in a Summer job. For more information, please see the website. Overall it ends up being a 3 way win normally. If you have any q's feel free to mail me. Michael. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message.
