May 29th, 2007 by mattl
Something I’ve been thinking about lately - what role should Free Software play in Free Culture?
Who am I? I’m Matt Lee - a comedian, comic book artist and author. I’m also a free software hacker.
Is Free Culture the combination of Free Art and Free Software and some other things? FreeCulture.org and the students of the United States have a golden opportunity to set an example here, by switching to using only Free Software.
A potentially controversial statement, and it should be clear that my views might not represent those of FreeCulture.org.
Some notes came out of the National Conference about Free Software and it was great to see the Free Software Foundation and Defective By Design represented.
Anyway, I thank Nelson and the FreeCulture.org gang for giving me the opportunity to post this. Give me your feedback by email - mattl at gnu dot org or find me on IRC - mattl.
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May 8th, 2006 by Gavin Baker
Google is running their Summer of Code project again this summer. (We wrote about the project last year.) 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.
We may not always agree with the actions of Google (or anyone else, for that matter), but it’s hard to argue with paying students to work on free software. Each student accepted to the program will receive a $4,500 stipend for their work, with $500 going to their mentoring organization. Mentor projects include projects such as Apache, Creative Commons, LiveJournal, FreeBSD, the GNU Project, Ubuntu, OpenOffice.org, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Needless to say, this is a great opportunity to help out free software projects and encourage young developers to code F/OSS. The applications are due by Monday at 5 pm Pacific time, so if you’re interested, hop on it!
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June 2nd, 2005 by Elizabeth Stark
Google 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.
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