Hi guys,
Eric Wilhelm is helping to co-ordinate Perl's involvement in
the Google
Summer of Code. If you're interested, either as a
participant or mentor,
read on ...
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Delivery-date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:11:40 +0000
Subject: [pm_groups] Summer of Perl -- call for student
proposals
Hi all, Please forward this to your groups. (Also feel
free to break
into a discussion as to whether or how students are involved
in the
perl community, what we can do to connect with more
universities and
etc.)
The Perl Foundation is participating in Google's 2008 Summer
of Code(tm)
and we have a lot of capable, willing mentors looking
forward to working
with some talented, driven students. So, we would like you
to help
find those students (and quickly -- the students must apply
before
March 24th.)
This is a rare opportunity for students to get a chance to
get a paid
summer of hacking on exciting projects like Parrot, Perl 6,
Moose,
Jifty, SVK, Catalyst, or their very own Perl modules or
applications.
It also brings new talent into the community and gives the
student a
hefty "real world" experience with a knowledgable
mentor. Further,
employers love to see this sort of demonstration of
teamwork, handling
deadlines, communication skills, resourcefulness and etc.
We're looking for promising students who are interested in
open source
(or maybe you know someone who *should* be interested in
open source.)
Knowledge of Perl is optional if the project is
Parrot-related. The
student doesn't need to be an expert in the problem domain
(after all,
learning is part of the process), but should bring a big
pile of
creativity, problem-solving skills, and determination.
Students should review the page of suggested projects, but
are
encouraged to bring their own proposals (those are often the
best.)
The most important first step is getting in touch with the
community
and discussing their project idea with potential mentors.
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gso
c2008_projects
Additional information and links can be found here.
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008
Google has posted some flyers if you happen to have a
university
bulletin board or hallway handy:
http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wik
i/GsocFlyers
Additional info:
http://code.google.c
om/soc/2008/
http://code
.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html
(Note that google has particular requirements to do with the
fact that
they are paying the students. The student must be able to
show their
eligibility regarding enrollment and employability.)
Remember, the Perl community draws talent from many fields,
so if you
came to Perl from a non-computer-science major and still
have contacts
in that department from your university, it is probably
worth
mentioning to them.
Thanks,
Eric
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Cheers,
Barbie.
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Memoirs Of A Roadie - http://barbie.missbar
bell.co.uk
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wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Eric Wilhelm is helping to co-ordinate Perl's
involvement in the Google
> Summer of Code. If you're interested, either as a
participant or mentor,
> read on ...
Sounds great .
Is there a list listing mentors from UK . If not, can we
compile one, I know
the students will be choosing on the basis of idea first !
I want to volunteer for something of interest, would this be
in interest ?
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Thanks and kind Regards,
Abhishek jain
07799 328 727
skype: ejaincom