Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
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Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
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Re: Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
#2More clearly: Mono is accepting applications for paid summer internships.
Re: Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
#3More clearly: Mono is accepting applications for paid summer internships.
Err, no. Google Summer of Code isn't really an internship. You just develop for the project on something you're interested in (and your mentor approves), and you and the mentoring project get paid in chunks over the summer (by Google).
Re: Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
#4More clearly: Mono is accepting applications for paid summer internships.
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. There's 175 participating organizations, one of which is Mono, which has been a part of it since the very first year. I know it's a fad to not RTFA, but really, it's not that complicated :)
Re: Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
#5How good do you need to be to get accepted? Do they only want A students from CS courses, sort of thing?
Re: Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
#6semi-off-topic; does anyone here have experiences with GSoC they'd like to share?
Re: Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
#7semi-off-topic; does anyone here have experiences with GSoC they'd like to share?
I did GSoC last year with FFmpeg, working on the RTP/RTSP layer. It was a lot of fun working on a code base like that -- multimedia seemed so arcane before starting out.
One of the things I appreciated the most were the code reviews. I had awesome mentors, and my skills have improved significantly thanks to the feedback I got.
I haven't contributed much since then (although I am working sporadically on NEONifying the swscale library), but I still monitor the mailing lists, hang around in the IRC channel, and collab with one of my mentors every day on a paying multimedia project. Multimedia hackers are some of the smartest people I know, so I hang around them in the hopes of picking up a few things by osmosis.
The only downside to GSoC was the pay, which is quite low, but I got to do things on my own time, like bicycle around and spend half the day at the beach. It was the first really relaxed summer I've had in a long time, coming off 6 years of college -- didn't feel like getting a real job just then. GSoC fit the bill perfectly for me.
Re: Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
#8How good do you need to be to get accepted? Do they only want A students from CS courses, sort of thing?
Not at all, there are many different projects with varying levels of difficulty. Everything from documentation addins to web apps, build system fixes or runtime work. We don't care what your level in school is, we care that you're excited about contributing to open source and propose a project that you can do.
Re: Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
#9semi-off-topic; does anyone here have experiences with GSoC they'd like to share?
I did GSoC under The Mono Project in 2005, and it was a great experience. Especially because Miguel is extremely awesome, on both a technical and personal level.
Re: Students: Hack on FOSS. Get Paid.
#10More clearly: Mono is accepting applications for paid summer internships.
Err, no. Google Summer of Code isn't really an internship. You just develop for the project on something you're interested in (and your mentor approves), and you and the mentoring project get paid in chunks over the summer (by Google).
Oh sorry. How does "Mono announces participation in SoC," strike you? It's mundane any way you slice it, but of course I'm quibbling.