Back again -- On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Jeremy Kemper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
DONE! We've raised $100,000 to sponsor 20 summer students. Wow, just wow. 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.
