[Building Sakai] Google Summer of Code

[Laura James]

With help from Michael Korcuska and Chuck Severance (for which, many  
thanks!), I submitted an application for the Sakai Foundation to be a  
mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code 2009.  And we've been  
accepted!

For those of you interested, there's more info about our application  
on google here:

http://socghop.appspot.com/org/show/google/gsoc2009/sakai

and about the summer of code in general here:

http://code.google.com/soc/

I'm the admin for Sakai at GSOC so do get in touch if you've any  
questions or suggestions.  Also, do tell your students about Sakai  
being part of GSOC - it's a great opportunity to get involved with an  
open source project and write some genuinely useful code - and if you  
can promote our involvement on your campus, this will increase the  
chances of us getting some great students involved and contributing to  
Sakai.

As google put it:

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student  
developers stipends to write code for various open source software  
projects. We have worked with several open source, free software, and  
technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a  
three month period. Since its inception in 2005, the program has  
brought together nearly 2500 successful student participants and 2500  
mentors from 98 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. Through  
Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a  
mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining  
exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the  
opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic  
pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily  
identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is  
created and released for the use and benefit of all.

Best,

Laura


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Dr Laura James

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