From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 13:38:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8491F106564A for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:38:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63FE18FC1F for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:38:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659B546B5D for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:23:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:23:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20080325132105.I6905@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Google / FreeBSD Summer of Code application period now open (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:38:29 -0000 Dear all, It would be really great to get this forwarded out to local university mailing lists, etc. Google Summer of Code has helped bring a great many students into the FreeBSD community over the last few years, with several becoming committers and making significant code contributions. Unfortunately, the timeline for the proposal process is quite tight, but my suspicion is that we can get some excellent proposals int hat time. Remind students that they are welcome to pick from and expand from the long list of ideas we have on the web site, but they are also welcome to come up with their own ideas that aren't on the list and propose those as well. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:31:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson To: announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Google / FreeBSD Summer of Code application period now open Summer of Code - Get Paid to Work on Open Source This Summer Google Summer of Code is an exciting opportunity for students to "intern" with an open source project for a summer. The FreeBSD Project, as one of the most successful and oldest open source projects, is an excellent place to do this internship. Founded in 1993, the project now consists of several hundred "committers" and tens of thousands of contributors. FreeBSD is the foundation for many commercial products, including Apple's Mac OS X, NetApp's OnTap/GX, Juniper's JunOS, as well countless other products, from Cisco anti-spam appliances to Isilon's cluster storage hardware, and is widely used in the Internet Service Provider and corporate IT worlds. Many of these sponsors participate daily in the FreeBSD community, and students have the opportunity to develop software in an exciting environment with many real world applications, and under the mentorship of experienced developers. After the summer ends, many of our students are sponsored by Google or the FreeBSD Foundation to attend operating systems and open source conferences to present on their work, and a significant number go on to become FreeBSD developers. It's also a great job networking opportunity! There are many dozens of example project ideas listed on the FreeBSD web site here: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html and for many other open source organizations as well: http://code.google.com/soc Some of the example projects include working on embedded operating systems, unix filesystems, network performance and implementing new network protocols, and more. Most sample project ideas include developers you can contact to discuss a proposal, and we recommend doing so in advance of submitting a proposal. Strong C language skills are recommended for most projects. _______________________________________________ freebsd-announce@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-announce-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"