FYI: Google to pay student open source developers (Summer of Code)

[Paul Scott]

I must agree with you. At our organization we have a strong intern
programme. At the moment, in my unit, we have four interns and one
"senior" intern. The senior guy has been with us for almost a year now,
and is being promoted to full developer status next week. We deal mainly
with PHP projects, all OSS, and he arrived not knowing what PHP was! Our
other four interns all are from around Africa, as part of an exchange
program, as well as students at the university.

I have the utmost confidence in all of these guys, and will recommend
them for any job that they may want. I think that this is an excellent
way of growing talent, and fully support any organization that does it!

--Paul

>>> Rick Levine <Richard_D_Levine at RAYTHEON.COM> 06/01/05 5:49 PM >>>
I'm cross posting this because it is an excellent opportunity for
students.
I was a paid intern (studying pterodactyls), and my company employs paid
interns to perform well bounded summer projects.  The intern gains
invaluable industry experience and a semester's worth of tuition (or
beer).
One more reason Google rocks:  Applying a proven industry technique in a
new and benevolent way for OSS.

Rick


                                                                        
  
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Google has announced (May 31) that it will provide a $4500 stipend to
student developers (& $500 to the mentoring organization) that complete
work on open source projects over the summer. Perhaps MapServer would
want
to be a "mentoring organization"?

"Summer of Code" Program details:
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html

"Mentoring Organization" FAQ:
http://code.google.com/mentfaq.html

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