21 marzo 2007
Nessun “complessista” che abbia voglia di passare l’estate in Michigan?
Segnalatomi ieri nel pannello d’amministrazione di WordPress, rilancio qui sul blog la notizia di una fantastica iniziativa sponsorizzata da Google: la “Google Summer of Code“.
Cito dalle FAQ ufficiali del progetto:
What is Google Summer of Code?
Google Summer of CodeTM is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be working with a several open source, free software and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Historically, the program has brought together over 1,000 students with over 100 open source projects, to create hundreds of thousands of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its third year, following on from a very successful 2006.
While the majority of past student participants were enrolled in university Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs, GSoCers come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds, from computational biology to mining engineering. Many of our past participants had never participated in an open-source project before GSoC; others used the GSoC stipend as an opportunity to concentrate fully on their existing open source coding activities over the summer. Several of our 2005 students went on to become mentors in 2006.
Tra le varie iniziative sponsorizzate, una menzione d’onore spetta sicuramente a quella che ha come target il “Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS), della University of Michigan“. I dettagli delle “project ideas” sviluppabili presso il CSCS sono elencate qui. La mia estate ormai è già pianificata nei dettagli. Ma se qualcuno avesse voglia di farsi un’esperienza oltreoceano, questa credo sarebbe una grande chance…
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fico. ma normandia per me stà estate. auz!