Hi! I'm Tomasz Kosiak. This year I have an honor to officially serve as an administrator for Tcl/Tk Community involvement in Google Summer of Code 2009 program. I would like to ask all broad Tcl community members to help us reach students worldwide and encourage them to apply for a summer scholarship.
If you have never heard of Google Summer of Code (aka GSoC) it is a Google, Inc. sponsored initiative to fund aproximately 1000 student scholarship $4500 each for coding during a summer for ideas freely chosen by approved open-source organization. Tcl/Tk community is approved again by Google this year (second time). We seek opportunities to advertise among CS students our GSoC project ideas. That is why I have prepared one slide info about Tcl/Tk and GSoC. This e-mail can be freely forwarded directly to prospective students or to your fellow university teachers so they can show this slide for their students. The goal is to reach students worldwide willing to apply to Tcl/Tk as mentoring organization. See Tcl/Tk GSoC 2009 in a pill at http://tinyurl.com/tcl-gsoc2009 and this is the only URL students shall write down to get started. Official news about Tcl/Tk GSoC 2009 is at http://www.tcl.tk/gsoc/ and http://wiki.tcl.tk/22182. We, Tcl mentors and admins, are really willing to help students prepare their applications. This is what our community is fond of. As last year we *do* plan to act as umbrella organization for other Tcl-related projects like Tk, XOTcl, Expect, AOLserver, Naviserver, OpenACS, aMSN, Coccinella and others. We will try to lobby Google to assure one student slot to those interested sub-communities. But we need your ideas, mentors and promotion of our effort among students as number of slots is mostly proportional to number of students application received by an organization. This is urgent as it would be best to reach students before the weekend as student application deadline is set to April 3: 12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC Don't hesitate to contact me and Matthew Burke directly. Jeff Hobbs (Tcl Guy you all know) is also actively involved. Regards and Happy Tcl'ing, Tomasz Kosiak PS. You can point students to other resources prepared by Google from which I like the most the MS PowerPoint Slides from Philip Johnson's presentation on Google Summer of Code at http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/~johnson/screencasts/GSoC2009.ppt (see also the video at http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/~johnson/screencasts/GSoC2009.mov). These resource are both mentioned at official Google Blog in a post at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/supporting-students-in-open-source.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ naviserver-devel mailing list naviserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/naviserver-devel
