On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Jeremy Kemper <[email protected]> wrote: > Google Summer of Code student applications start today! > > College students: follow your open source passion this summer and let > Google foot the bill. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program > that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open > source software projects. > > RubyCentral didn't make it in as a mentoring organization this year, > so Rails is opening the gates to any project in the broader Ruby > ecosystem rather than solely Rails development. We will prefer strong > Rails applicants if the pool of dedicated, energetic mentors is too > small to give all projects the attention they deserve. > > So Rubyists, step up! Please consider mentoring a student this summer. > It's a significant responsibility (estimate 5 hours/week) but mutually > rewarding and immensely beneficial to the community at large. Sign up > at the GSoC site [1] and join the discussion in the GSoC Campfire room > [2]. > > Students, now's the time to brainstorm and come up with a summer > project you feel passionate about. Check out and contribute to the > ideas list on the Rails wiki [3], start a discussion on the Rails core > list [4], and chat with mentors in the GSoC Campfire room [2]. Come up > with a concrete, attainable set of goals for the summer, and start > writing up an application [5]. You can work on your application from > now until the deadline, April 3 [6]. > > Best regards, and good luck! > jeremy > > [1] http://socghop.appspot.com/mentor/request/google/gsoc2009/rails > [2] https://rails.campfirenow.com/33511 > [3] http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/gsoc/2009/ideas > [4] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core > [5] http://socghop.appspot.com/student/apply/google/gsoc2009 > [6] http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline
Aaaand we've started a mailing list! http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-gsoc Students and mentors, please join. Everyone else is welcome too :) jeremy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
