From thompsa at freebsd.org  Tue Apr 10 19:59:46 2007
From: thompsa at freebsd.org (Andrew Thompson)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:59:46 +1200
Subject: [nzfug-general] Summer of Code
In-Reply-To: <5fsm45$hrkmd8@ironport3.ihug.co.nz>
References: <5fsm45$hrkmd8@ironport3.ihug.co.nz>
Message-ID: <20070410235946.GC4081@heff.fud.org.nz>

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:11:26PM +1200, LEE Tet Yoon wrote:
> At 08:20 a.m. 19/03/2007, you wrote:
> >Google is sponsoring students this summer to work on open source
> >software.  This program provides $4500 in funding to allow students to
> >spend the summer working with mentors from the open source community on
> >specific projects.  The FreeBSD Project is one of many participating
> >open source organizations that provides a long list of example proposals
> >and extensive mentoring and support to help students complete their
> >summer goals.
> >
> 
> Not that I qualify or am interested but is this going to require
> students to code in winter (i.e. while they're at university) again? I
> wrote to them before and they said they did want to include southern
> hemisphere students but I don't see anything to indicate they do have
> options for southern hemisphere students (although I couldn't find any
> info on requires completion dates)  

To clarify this, NZ students are most certainly eligible as Andrew
Turner (ChCh) came out on top of the FreeBSD rankings and is secure a
place.


Andrew