[cad-linux] BRL-CAD joins the 2008 Google Summer of Code

I'm delighted to announce that BRL-CAD has been accepted as a  
mentoring organization in the 2008 Google Summer of Code [1] !  The  
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a summer program for students hosted  
by Google every year that pays students a stipend of $4500 over the  
course of summer to work on open source projects.  The student  
application period is open March 24th through March 31st this year.   
Any students interested in participating should visit the BRL-CAD  
GSoC wiki pages [2] for more information about the submission process  
and details on some of our suggested project ideas [3].

[1] http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
[2] http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code
[3] http://brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Project_Ideas

We have developed an extensive list of project ideas that we'd love  
to see worked on, but fresh ideas are also always welcome and are  
often the most successful too.  Students interested in working on BRL- 
CAD should consult with the developers via the #brlcad IRC channel  
[4] on Freenode or through the brlcad-devel mailing list [5]  
regardless of the proposal to help develop a detailed and desirable  
proposal submission.  Students are strongly encouraged to get  
involved early-on in the submission process, to discuss proposals in  
depth, and to help our mentors become better acquainted with the  
students.

[4] http://irc.brlcad.org
[5] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel

Now in its fourth year running, the Google Summer of Code has already  
brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90  
countries worldwide to open source software development, all for the  
love of code.  For additional information, a very brief summary of  
the program was prepared for the BZFlag project [6].  BZFlag ran a  
rather successful program last year with their involvement documented  
in a detailed "postmortem" article [7].

[6] http://my.bzflag.org/gsoc/GSoC2007_Overview.pdf
[7] http://my.bzflag.org/gsoc/bzflag_gsoc2007_post_mortem.pdf

One of the primary goals of the program is to introduce students to  
free open source software development with the specific intent of  
attracting those students as new long-term developers for that  
project.  For BRL-CAD, this is very much our primary reason for  
participating.  With increased awareness, new developers, and  
increased developer activity, we hope to accelerate BRL-CAD  
development to benefit the entire CAD user community.  We eagerly  
look forward to working with our students on their projects and will  
be sure to share progress of our involvement throughout the summer.

Cheers!
Sean

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