Hello again, On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Jeremy Kemper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
UPDATE Great news: we broke the $75,000 mark in less than 24 hours! We've raised enough to fully fund 15 summer students. We're so grateful to see the Ruby community coming out to support this program in its first go around. Great expectations. So with stars in our eyes and we're setting a cap at 20 students. Just $25K to go. Take us the last mile. Best, Jeremy Kemper -- 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.
