Summer of Code (and Fun)
June 2nd, 2005 by elizabethstarkGoogle has announced a new Summer of Code project to sponsor students working on open source projects.
They will pay a stipend of $4500 to each student that completes an open source project by the summer’s end. Particpating organizations include Apache, FreeBSD, Internet2, Live Journal, XWiki, and, not surprisingly, Google.
You must be enrolled in or accepted to an accredited institution and applications are due by June 14.
Their rightsholder policy is as follows:
Some organizations will require you to assign copyright to them, but many will allow you to retain copyright. If Google is your sponsoring organization, then the answer is that you keep copyright to your code.
The program is open to students around the world, and needless to say, $4500 is a small fortune in some countries. Student developers unite.
May 8th, 2006 at 1:37 am
[...] Google is running their Summer of Code project again this summer. (We wrote about the project last year.)Â For those who don’t know: Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several hundred projects over a three-month period. The inaugural instance of the program, which took place last summer, brought together 400 students and 40 mentoring organizations from 49 countries. We’d like to include even more organizations and participants this year. [...]