Summer Is Almost Here, and So Is the Summer of Code
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| The Summer of Code is a program in which students work on open source
| projects during the summer. The students are not Google employees, and are
| not working on Google projects. However, they are paid $4,500 from Google.
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http://ostatic.com/158808-blog/summer-is-almost-here-and-so-is-the-summer-of-code
BigCarrot: Could Prize Money Spur Open Source Innovation?
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| So what are the rules? To initiate a prize, any user clicks on a Start a
| Prize button on BigCarrot's home page and drafts the rules for the proposal.
| Next, the BigCarrot community helps revise and improve the prize rules. Once
| the rules are defined, the prize is opened for financial contributions from
| the public. Finally, when someone submits a claim for the prize, all
| contributors get to vote on whether to award it.
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http://ostatic.com/158809-blog/bigcarrot-could-prize-money-spur-open-source-innovationss
Related:
Google's Summer of Code 2008
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| "Google Summer of Code 2008 is on! Over the past three years, the program has
| brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries
| worldwide, all for the love of code. We look forward to welcoming more new
| contributors and projects this year," begins a page listing all the projects
| planning to participate in this year's GSoC. Among the numerous planned
| participtants there are many kernel projects, including DragonFly BSD,
| FreeBSD, Git, GNU/Hurd, Linux, Minix, and NetBSD.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Google's_Summer_of_Code_2008
Games : Games at Google Summer of Code 2008
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| Google has published a list of mentoring organizations and projects for
| Google Summer of Code 2008. Quite a few gaming and gaming-related projects
| have made it again this year:
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| * Battle for Wesnoth - ideas
| * BZFlag - ideas
| * Crystal Space - ideas
| * OGRE - ideas
| * ScummVM - ideas
| * Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) - ideas
| * Thousand Parsec - ideas
| * Tux4Kids - ideas
| * WorldForge - ideas
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http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2403
Google readies Summer of Code 2008
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| Google is preparing its fourth Summer of Code programme in which students
| spend the summer working on development projects with various open source
| groups.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2211026/google-prepares-summer-code
Google behind Photoshop's new Linux compatibility
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| "About 200 patches were committed to winehq, and as of wine-0.9.54, Photoshop
| CS2 is quite usable," Kegel noted in a separate post.
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http://www.apcmag.com/8034/google_behind_photoshops_new_linux_compatibility
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