Dear JISC Repositories Community,
We certainly welcome any interest, participation and ideas you might
have. In the DSpace community we are excited to see any cross
pollination help our Open Source Communities grow and the movement
toward Open Access flourish.
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From: Mark Diggory <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Subject: DSpace Foundation accepted into GSoC 2009 (Call for Projects)
To: DSpace Developers <[log in to unmask]>, DSpace
Tech <[log in to unmask]>, DSpace General
<[log in to unmask]>
Dear DSpace Community,
YOU CAN GET $4500 FOR DOING "THAT"?!!!
The DSpace Foundation has registered with Google to participate in
this years Google Summer of Code internship program
(http://code.google.com/soc). The DSpace community participated the
last two years, completing 4-5 successful and interesting projects
each year. Each of these projects has brought value to our community
at large.
What are the requirements for participating in GSoC 2009!?? Find out
here (professors, show this to your students)...
(very very entertaining stuff here, if your patient and want to know
the "History of Open Source"!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBRRR0BQyz0
(ok, kinda dry, but gets to the point right away, "Google Will Give You Money!".
http://idyll.dreamhosters.com/transfer/gsoc-2008-screencast.mp4
And more propaganda here!!!
http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/ProgramPresentation
The purpose of participation is to (1) promote involvement of new
students as open source developers within the DSpace Community, (2)
provide opportunities for existing community members to lead within
the community as mentors, and (3) build some exciting new add-ons and
prototypes for DSpace along the way, .
We would like to encourage "all community members" to post their ideas
for projects on the wiki:
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code_Ideas
To see ideas from 2007 for reference:
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_Ideas_2008
We need to get as many ideas posted by MARCH 24th, as this is when the
application period begins for students (applications are accepted
until Fri, April 3, 12pm PST)
If you are interested in participating as a student:
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/userguide#quick_students
If you would like to be a mentor on the project you proposed, are an
active developer in the community and keenly interested in leading a
student through a software development project, join the community and
apply in the GSoC 2009 application as a mentor for the DSpace project.
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/userguide#quick_mentors
Get excited and join in on the fun!
Cheers,
Mark
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Mark R. Diggory
Tentative GSoC 2009 Administrator
DSpace Commiter
Consultant @mire
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