Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source
TeamAfter a busy year running
Google Summer of Code,
hosting
community conferences, adding
new
features to our
project hosting
site, and
helping
transform the Google Web Toolkit into an open source project, our team has finally
had a chance to clear out the old inbox and catch up on the news.
And
the news is awesome! All over the world, programs are springing up to get students involved in
open source:
GNOME
Women's Summer Outreach Program: On top of mentoring 20 students for GSoC,
GNOME funded six additional developer projects in
Summer 2006, all by women. The GNOME journal has
more
information.
The OCaml Summer Project: To encourage
growth in its developer community, Jane Street Capital will fund
OCaml student projects this summer and then bring
the students together in
New
York City at the close of the program.
Season of Usability:
Student developers from several countries are working with mentors to improve usability in
Inkscape,
KDE and more.
Winter of Code: Korean games publisher NCsoft
just finished taking applications for their program in late December. We look forward to
hearing about the results of their efforts to get students from middle school through
university level involved in open source development. (Note: The Winter of Code program site
is in Korean, but feel free to try an
English
translation. If you would like to read more about the Winter of Code in English,
ZDNet Asia has
further
details.)
We've also heard that the
MySQL folks are
planning their own Winter of Code
program.
Heard about other programs like these? We'd love to
hear from you!
Note: Post
updated to correctly attribute sponsorship of the OCaml project to Jane's Capital.