It may have taken me four months to send this year's first
nmap-hackers mail, but the second only took me four hours.
I want to
let you all know that Nmap has been accepted for the fourth
year
running to participate in the Google Summer of Code program.
This
generous and innovative program provides $4,500 stipends to
hundreds
of university students to create or enhance open source
software.
Applications are only accepted for one week, until Monday,
March 31.
If you are a college student in any country, I'd strongly
encourage
you to apply for Nmap SoC. There aren't many opportunities
available
to get paid to work on free software of your choice, and
this is one
of them. The last three years have been great! Even if you
aren't a
student, perhaps you have a talented friend or relative who
might be
interested. This program is a great benefit to Nmap, and
the benefit
is proportional to the quality of applicants we get. So
please spread
the word! Some SoC students have turned into long-term
Nmap
developers and are still writing great new code. Several
have become
SoC mentors to guide new Nmap SoC students.
Summer of code successes in recent years have lead to the
2nd
Generation OS detection system, the Zenmap GUI, the runtime
interaction feature which tells you how soon your scan is
likely to
finish, and much more. Here are more Nmap SoC success
stories:
2007: http:/
/seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0024.html
2006: http:/
/seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q1/0235.html
2005: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183143&cid=15
133184
If you or someone you know are interested, you can send them
to the
Nmap 2008 project ideas page at:
http://nmap.org/Goo
gleGrants.html
And you can learn more about the program in general at:
http://code.google.c
om/soc/2008/
Since you can apply for more than one project, I'd like to
mention
some other security projects which were accepted, along with
their
ideas pages:
OSVDB: The Open Source Vulnerability Database:
http://osvdb.org/blog/?p
=231
OSSIM: Open Source Security Information Management:
http:
//www.ossim.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ideas
The Electronic Frontier Foundation/Tor Project:
https://www.torproject.org/volunteer.html.en#Projects
Freenet Project:
http:
//wiki.freenetproject.org/SummerOfCode2008
So please get those applications in by Monday, or help
spread the
word!
Cheers,
Fyodor
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