From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 1 20:22:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: announce@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A850316A402 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 20:22:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@freebsdmall.com) Received: from mail.freebsdmall.com (69.50.233.168.ip.nectartech.com [69.50.233.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F53143D4C for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 20:22:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from murray@freebsdmall.com) Received: by mail.freebsdmall.com (Postfix, from userid 2074) id D6FBE1D6CA6A; Mon, 1 May 2006 13:22:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 13:22:52 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: announce@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20060501202252.GB64430@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Summer of Code Application Deadline in 1 week X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 20:22:54 -0000 The Summer of Code application process has officially begun. This is an excellent opportunity for students to get involved with improving FreeBSD. Successful student applicants will receive $4,500 in funding from Google, will be granted an account on the FreeBSD.org Perforce revision control system, and will receive an @freebsd.org mail forward to help interact with other FreeBSD developers this summer. We have identified a number of senior developers to serve as mentors to introduce students to contributing to FreeBSD. We have also identified some example project ideas and guidelines for writing a good proposal on our Summer of Code web page : http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html There you will find a partial list of example proposal ideas in all areas of operating system design, including networking, filesystems, installation tools, parallel programming, security research and more. Once a suitable project and mentor have been identified, interested students should complete a proposal and submit it to Google. Proposals are now being accepted and the final deadline is May 8, 2006 at 17:00 Pacific Daylight Time (midnight May 9, 2006 0:00 UTC). Winning candidates will be announced in late May. Interacting with a global team of open source developers in a centralized revision control system is excellent preparation for a future career as a software engineer. Many of the students that participated last year are still contributing code to FreeBSD. For additional information about this program, please see the student frequently asked questions page: http://code.google.com/soc/studentfaq.html Thanks and good luck! - Murray Stokely