While surfing i came across this completely amazing concept by google, actually just another to add to their existing list of ideas. Eventually I also felt the need to promote this. Imagine being paid to express your coding abilities on open-source environments, i.e. to be paid stipends to work on open source programs.
An excellent opportunity for college students to gain experience on coding as well as get paid to do it, things just couldn't get better, heres an excerpt from their website.
"About Google Summer of Code
Program has already been announced on January 24th and will continue up-to august this year. The period of student applications will start this march.
An excellent opportunity for college students to gain experience on coding as well as get paid to do it, things just couldn't get better, heres an excerpt from their website.
"About Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. We have worked with several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought together over 4,500 students and more than more than 4,000 mentors & co-mentors from over 85 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all."
Program has already been announced on January 24th and will continue up-to august this year. The period of student applications will start this march.
great,.........
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