Hi,
We're (BBC Research) participating in Google's Summer of Code as a mentor organisation again, and I thought it worth spreading some extra publicity where I think there might be some interested people. (I perhaps should've sent this sooner!) * What's Google Summer of Code? (I suspect most people here know :) Essentially Google are paying students to work on open source projects and being mentored in those projects, producing useful code and learning useful skills. Google's aim is to increase the number of people bitten by the open source bug :-) * How is BBC Research/ Kamaelia involved? Like last year we're a mentor organisation, Kamaelia is the open source project that project applications are invited for. It's aim is to make highly concurrent systems natural to create and simple to maintain. (given a choice of forces the we choose the latter) We seem to be having some success in this and have a number of systems we've built using Kamaelia. Kamaelia is primarily focussed around building networked, multimedia systems, tools and applications, since that's generally our problem domain, however Kamaelia is a generic component framework & toolset. Our project ideas and guidance page is here: * http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/SummerOfCode2007 However, we're also interested other ideas beyond that, especially systems that use Kamaelia that can act as exemplars. To give an idea of potential scope, a list of components can be found here: * http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/Components * Who can Apply ? You need to be a student now, or in september enrolled at a university degree course or similar level of institution/degree. * When is the deadline ? Monday midnight. * Url? http://code.google.com/soc/ Please feel free to forward this to any students or student groups you would find this interesting ! :-) Regards, Michael. -- Michael Sparks, Senior Research Engineer, BBC Research, Technology Group [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kamaelia Project Lead, http://kamaelia.sf.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
