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Google Summer of Code

An announcement from Google:

"Historically, Google Summer of Code™ has brought together nearly 2,500 students with over 180 open source projects to create millions of lines of code. We're looking for mentors and students to join us in making 2009 the best Summer of Code yet! We'll be offering successful student contributors a 4500 USD stipend, enabling them to focus on their coding projects for three months.

The Google Summer of Code program is designed to encourage student participation in open source development. Kicking off in 2005, the program has several goals:

Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development
Provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer
Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette, etc.)
Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all
Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers

Google will accept applications from open source projects from March 9 - 13, 2009.

Student applications will be accepted from March 23 - April 3, 2009.

Full details on requirements for participating, including how to apply and more on the all important t-shirt at http://code.google.com/soc/

Translations proudly provided by Google Summer of CodeTM community members."

View the Google Summer of Code flyer (pdf, 213kb)