[Jmol-users] Summer of Code - payed summer work for students

[Egon W. <eg...@us...>]

Hi all,

it might be interesting for some of us, and interesting to distribute for 
others:

"This summer, don't let your programming skills lie fallow. Use them for the 
greater good of open source software and computer science. Google will 
provide a $4500 award to each student who successfully completes a project by 
the end of the summer." [1]

And I know one idea that might very well lead to an award. I don't know the 
details, but the KDE project participates [2], and has this idea up on the 
web "Writing a KDE application not in C(++)":

"Description: The KDE/Qt framework is famous for providing a low-entry barrier 
for people to get in touch with OO and GUI programming. The goal of this 
bounty is to show that this doesn't have to be done in C++. There are 
language bindings for many scripting and other rapid-prototyping-compatible 
languages, like Ruby, Python or Java. Your mission is to prove that they're 
generally useful by writing a new KDE application or rewriting an existing 
one using these languages."

Thus say a KDE version of Jmol and JChemPaint seems a *very* option!

I don't seem to qualify... I *am* getting old :(

But I think many of us have students around whom we might get interested in 
this.

One catch! The deadline is on the 14th! We'll have to move fast!

Egon

1. http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
2. http://developer.kde.org/joining/googlesummerofcode.html

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