Hi, The MacPorts Project will apply again for the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program this year. I think most of you will already have heard of it. Google pays students to work on various Open Source projects over the summer. It is also a good start for students into Open Source development.
See also <http://code.google.com/soc/> for more background information. MacPorts will apply to be one of the mentoring organizations. The students can propose their project ideas to us and we will choose the most appealing applications. Each student is supposed to work closely with a mentor who should guide the student through their project and the Open Source world. A mentor should have knowledge of the project and will communicate with the student over the summer to watch the progress and work out any problems. So, we need mentors from our MacPorts community who are willing to care for a student. Please participate! We have to move quickly, as we need to make our application very soon by deadline Friday, March 13th. Also, if you have a specific idea what could be improved in MacPorts, but you never had the time to do it yourself, please put a proposal on our ideas page. I already cleared up the list from the last year and there are still interesting and important projects on it. And we need mentors for these, of course. Ideas page: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode I am going to be the administrator for GSoC for MacPorts this year, so I will handle the organization application etc. If you have any questions regarding GSoC, please don't hesitate to ask. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
