From: William S F. <ws...@fu...> - 2009-03-19 00:52:35
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We're excited to pass on that SWIG has now been accepted onto the Google Summer of Code program - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/03/our-fifth-google-summer-of-code-meet.html. We are in the list of 150 open-source/free projects that have been accepted out of the 400 odd that applied. It really is a great chance for students to gain a real life introduction to the free software world as well as an opportunity for anyone itching to have a SWIG feature implemented. Details below... William William S Fulton wrote: > Do you have an area of SWIG that you would like to see improved? > Google's Summer of Code program is a way for that to happen and get paid > for it. Either become a student ($4500 payment) and code up the changes > or look after a student as a mentor ($500). This is of course contingent > on SWIG being accepted onto the program as the participants haven't been > announced yet. > > > Last year we participated and had four students, see > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/11/swigs-first-google-summer-of-code.html. > > We have an ideas page for this year at > http://code.google.com/p/swig-gsoc/wiki/ProjectIdeas. If you are > interested in having SWIG enhanced in any way please detail it on the > ideas page and let us know if you can help mentor a student implement > any features. We are short of mentors and the more mentors there are the > more projects we can get done. Mentors don't necessarily need to be > familiar with the SWIG source code, but familiarity with SWIG to some > degree, and the technologies around the particular feature enhancement > are required. > > More info for potential mentors: > http://www.dabeaz.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DeveloperInfo/GSoCStructure. Any > questions, take a look at > http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html or ask on the list > here. Otherwise chat on #swig-gsoc on irc.freenode.net. > > Please email or ask on #swig-gsoc to get permission to modify the > project ideas wiki page. > > William > |