[cad-linux] Google Summer of Code

Hi all,

If you're a student interested in Open Source (or know some students), 
now is the time to act to get involved in Google's wonderful Summer of 
Code program.

  http://code.google.com/soc/

Each year, Google offers students the opportunity to spend their summer 
vacation coding rather than flipping burgers.  You propose a project, 
and if selected, you're assigned a mentor and provided with a stipend.  
It is a competitive program to get into, but offers an amazing amount 
of real-world experience and the ability to get seriously involved in 
an open source project of your choosing.

Please help us get the word out to students and remind them that the 
deadline is fast approaching (noon (PDT) on Friday!)

For you non-students, your efforts to connect with students will greatly 
benefit the cad-linux community.  The following projects (and maybe 
more) are good candidates for student involvement this year:

BRL-CAD
  http://my.brlcad.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2009/Project_Ideas

PythonCAD (via Python Software Foundation)
  http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode/2009

VectorSection (I would mentor via The Perl Foundation)
  http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc

Please feel free to contact me with questions.  If you're interested in 
working on a project I didn't list, anything open source is fair game 
so long as you can find a willing mentor and the appropriate mentoring 
organization. 

Thanks,
Eric

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