The summer of love code
Now when I was a student... Yawn. Here we go again. No, seriously, when I was a student and money was needed for expenses (books, drink), one hopped on a ferry to Britain and got a job working in construction in London. It was about brawn, not brains. Today, however, if you're a student and you can program, Google wants to hear from you. The search engine is offering aspiring coders up to $4,500 to work on summer projects for different open source groups including: The Apache Software Foundation, the Gnome Foundation, the Mono Project, the Perl Foundation, the Python Software Foundation, the Subversion Project and the Wine Project.
Google's got the open source religion in a big way of late, hiring several top developers, most notably from the Mozilla Foundation, and it's been posting an impressive number of open source developer jobs. And some of the results of its open source initiative have already been made public as on the Sourceforge.net repository.
Anyway, the Google Summer of Code application closing date is 14 June and 1 September is the deadline ("pencils down" as Google puts it) for project completion. Sounds a lot more interesting than mixing concrete while the Sun reports "75 degrees! Phew! What a scorcher!" Still, those were the days. Why, I remember one time we had to... Zzzzzzzz.
