internetnews.com: Google’s Summer of Code

“If you’re a student with time on your hands and want to
contribute to an open source project, Google wants to hear from
you. The search engine giant is offering coders up to $4,500 to
work on projects for different open source groups.

“Programmers can apply to the ‘Google Summer of Code’ initiative
through a sponsoring open source organization. Project ideas come
from Google as well as open source groups, including: The Python
Software Foundation, The Perl Foundation, The Apache Software
Foundation, Ubuntu Linux, The Mono Project, The Gnome Foundation,
The Wine Project, The Subversion Project. Each mentoring
organization will receive $500 for each developer project they
oversee…”

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