Calling all students, Google Summer of Code 2011 Applications are due by April 8!
(Professors, please share this with your students! Librarians, please forward to both professors and students!) YOU CAN EARN $5,000 FOR A BIT OF SUMMER CODING!?! That's right! Apply for Google Summer of Code and you can earn $5000 USD for a summer's worth of work! In addition, you will gain valuable experience in a friendly open source community (looks great on your resume!). You may even see your code as part of one of our DuraSpace technologies! DuraSpace is specifically looking for GSoC students who are interested in one or more of the following topics: digital preservation/curation, institutional repositories, digital libraries/archives, cloud computing, semantic web, web services/applications, open access publishing, and generally helping to ensure digital content can be accessible over the long term. For GSoC 2011, we are looking for students interested in working on any of our three open source technology platforms: * DSpace - a turnkey institutional repository application * Fedora - a framework for building digital repositories * DuraCloud - a hosted service for managing digital content in the cloud For a list of all current DuraSpace GSoC Project Ideas, please visit: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/GSOC/ Students are also welcome to suggest their own Project Ideas! If you'd like to begin the discussion early, please join our 'duraspace-gsoc' mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/duraspace-gsoc/ If you aren't yet convinced, here are some videos/propaganda to encourage your participation in GSoC: * GSoC 2011 Flyers: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers * From GSoC 2009 - GSoC experiences and a "History of Open Source": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBRRR0BQyz0 * From GSoC 2008 - "Google Wants to Give you Money!": http://idyll.dreamhosters.com/transfer/gsoc-2008-screencast.mp4 To participate in GSoC 2011 as a student, please visit the Google Summer of Code homepage to submit your application: http://www.google-melange.com/ In addition, we ask that you send in your application using the DuraSpace application template available on our GSoC profile: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/duraspace More information about DuraSpace and our projects can be found on our GSoC 2011 wiki page: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/GSOC/ The student application period began on Monday, March 28th and ends on Friday, April 8. See the GSoC 2011 Site (http://www.google-melange.com/) for more details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
