Dear DSpace Community, DuraSpace has been accepted as a participant in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student internship program (http://socghop.appspot.com/)!
The DSpace Community has participated in GSoC for the last three years (2007-2009), completing a total of 12 successful student projects over the years. Although not all projects may have been accepted into core DSpace, all have brought value to the DSpace community by allowing for the investigation of new ideas (which have consistently helped shape the evolution of DSpace through the years). What are the requirements for participating in GSoC 2010 (either as a Mentor or a Student)? Find out more below... == Call for Student Participants == (Professors, please share this with your students! Librarians, please forward to both professors and students!) YOU CAN EARN $5,000 FOR DOING THAT?!? 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 become part of DSpace software, and your name appear on our ever growing list of DSpace contributors: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpaceContributors Here's some videos/propaganda to encourage your participation in GSoC: * 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 * GSoC 2010 Flyers: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/GsocFlyers If you are interested in participating in GSoC as a student, please visit: http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/userguide#depth_students In addition, we ask that you send in your application using the application template available on our GSoC homepage: http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2010/duraspace More information can also be found off of the DuraSpace GSoC page: http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/GSOC/ The student application period begins on Monday, March 29th and ends on Friday, April 9. See the GSoC 2010 Site (http://socghop.appspot.com/) for more details. == Call for Mentors / DSpace Projects == The purpose of DSpace's participation in GSoC is to: (1) promote involvement of new students as open source developers within the DSpace Community, (2) provide opportunities for existing community members to lead within the community as mentors, and (3) build some exciting new add-ons and prototypes for DSpace along the way. We would like to encourage "all community members" to post their ideas for projects on the wiki: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_Ideas We need to get as many ideas posted by MONDAY, MARCH 29TH, as this is when the application period begins for students (student applications are accepted until Fri, April 9, 19:00 UTC). If you would like to be a mentor (or co-mentor) on the project you proposed, are an active developer in the community and keenly interested in leading a student through a software development project, please apply as follows: (1) First, add your name (along with projects you'd be willing to mentor) to our list of interested mentors: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code (2) Second, you will need to apply on the GSoC site to become a mentor for DuraSpace (please note, our organization name is DuraSpace and not DSpace): http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/userguide#depth_mentor The final list of mentors will be selected based on whether or not we have student's interested in your project. If we end up with more mentors than students, you are also welcome to join up and co-mentor a interesting student project. Get excited and join in on the fun! Tim -- Tim Donohue Technical Lead for DSpace Project DuraSpace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
