Nerdy Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap
This is quite possibly one of the best ideas Google has come up with yet.
It's called the "Summer of Code" and it's an effort to get some of the brightest minds on campuses around the world working towards some much needed Open Source projects.
Here are the basics: apply to complete a project for a list of approved open source mentors, get approved by Google, successfully complete the approved project, get money from $4500 from Google, and get some real world code under your belt.
The projects range from the challenging "Search Party" a server/client protocol to form ad-hoc chat rooms based on what search words, to something as simple as shaving as much time as possible from the GNOME login.
Google is one of the approved mentors, and their projects in general range from challenging to insanely challenging, so good luck to whoever wants to try their hands at those. If you're a coder with a month or two of downtime this summer, and you'd like to help the open source community and make some dollars while you're at it, check out the info at code.google.com
It's called the "Summer of Code" and it's an effort to get some of the brightest minds on campuses around the world working towards some much needed Open Source projects.
Here are the basics: apply to complete a project for a list of approved open source mentors, get approved by Google, successfully complete the approved project, get money from $4500 from Google, and get some real world code under your belt.
The projects range from the challenging "Search Party" a server/client protocol to form ad-hoc chat rooms based on what search words, to something as simple as shaving as much time as possible from the GNOME login.
Google is one of the approved mentors, and their projects in general range from challenging to insanely challenging, so good luck to whoever wants to try their hands at those. If you're a coder with a month or two of downtime this summer, and you'd like to help the open source community and make some dollars while you're at it, check out the info at code.google.com
