Fellow Rubyists, I'm proud to announce the first annual Ruby Summer of Code.
In the best tradition of Google's legendary summers of code, Ruby Central, Engine Yard [1], and the Rails team [2] have joined forces to muster a legend of our own, a new summer program for student Rubyists to flex their open source might. * Students are paid a $5000 stipend to work full-time during their summer break. * A group of Ruby gurus volunteer their time as mentors. * Mentors vote on student proposals based on usefulness, benefit to the Ruby community, and history of motivated open source contribution. Check out http://rubysoc.org for the full story, to volunteer as a mentor, and to sponsor a student. Student applications begin on April 4. Students, start working on your proposal now! Rails [3] and JRuby [4] have ideas lists up as a starting point. All Ruby projects are welcome. This is an entirely volunteer effort. The more we raise, the more students we can sponsor. 100% of contributions go directly to students. We already broke the $20,000 mark -- 4 summer students -- and we're aiming for *20* total. Do you make a living using Ruby? Does your business live and breathe Rails? It's a sweet and wonderful path. Donate today at http://rubysoc.org. Let's make this happen. Best, Jeremy Kemper [1] http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/ruby-summer-of-code-is-here/ [2] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/3/24/ruby-summer-of-code [3] http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rubysoc/2010/ideas [4] http://wiki.jruby.org/RubySummerOfCode2010 -- 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.
