Alberto Saavedra 2.0

Last year, Google showed their commitment to the open source community by funding 419 projects - assigned to 40 organizations - to introduce students around the world to Open Source Software Development. I was one of the lucky ones that got accepted and completed my project with a great organization: XWiki, today Chris Di Bona announced that Summer of Code 2006 is a reality and XWiki is participating this year too.

So if you develop open source this is your time to act, just read the Mentor FAQ and see how you can get your organization and favorite open source applications involved, you have until May 1st to submit interest to participate and you can even get 500 USD for your organization by mentoring a student and getting someone to work on that pending feature that you wanted so much to get done.

I haven’t seen any restriction on the number of projects, so if you have a project idea, propose it to your organization and submit the application, open source development will win. And if you are a student you have to get ready to apply on May 1st, I will write some of my experiences from last year’s program on an upcoming post, in the mean time you can read the Student FAQ

Last year’s hispanic open source community participation was low, so to increase it this year I have done an unofficial translation of the mentor FAQ for spanish readers of this blog.

Labels: internet

# posted by Beto : 1:31 AM