Re: Google Sommer of Code 2008

[Jost Tobias Springenberg <jspringe@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:28:15 -0500 (EST)
"Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@shiningsilence.com> wrote:

> On Tue, March 4, 2008 5:23 am, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Google just announced its Summer of Code for 2008:
> >
> > 	http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
> >
> > I think this would be a great opportunity for DragonFly to participate
> > as a mentoring organisation.  We could attract new developers and could
> > get code/work done.  Looking at the SoC results of the other BSDs most
> > of their projects were a success.  Of course, not all, but a reasonable
> > percentage.  See [1] and [2].
> 
> We've applied in previous years - Jeff Hsu did one year, and I put
> together the application last year.  The hardest thing to find was
> students (and they are the thing that helps SoC applications a lot, I
> think).
> 
> Any student volunteers?  We have mentors.
> 

I read this mailing list for quite a while now and thought about contributing stuff
to DFfly several times, so yes why not take this opportunity if it's there.

-- 
Jost Tobias Springenberg <jspringe@uos.de>