[Pdx-pm] Fwd: Google Summer of Code: Students and Members needed

[The Dread Parrot]

Hi All,

The student applications for this year's summer of code are due April 
8th.  If you know a college student who could spend the summer writing 
Perl, now is the time to tell them about Google Summer of Code.

  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/tpf

Notably, this is the first year that Parrot Foundation is a mentor 
organization, so perhaps there will be many more Parrot projects this 
year (work specific to Perl 6 still falls under TPF.)

  http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/parrot

--Eric

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Subject: Google Summer of Code: Students and Members needed
Date: Monday 21 March 2011 05:16
From: Mark Keating <m.keating at shadowcat.co.uk>

Hi All,

As you all know the Google Summer of Code gives students the chance to
involve themselves with an open source project and this year the
 efforts on behalf of The Perl Foundation (TPF) are being run by
 Florian Ragwitz (Rafl).

The first stage of this process (the accepting of the mentoring
organisation) has passed and the TPF have been accepted. You can now
visit http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2011/tpf to view 
more details.

I am now asking for your help in spreading the message about the TPF
 and in looking for students to join in with this year's event. If you
 could pass this message on to any mailing list you are on, or share it
 with appropriate locations so that we can make this year the most
 successful year for Perl ever it would be much appreciated.

The main site for the Google Summer of Code is:
http://www.google-melange.com/, a timeline for participation can be
found at
http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline. 
As you can see the student participation period opens on
 28th March, so we have just one week to get the word around.

Some prospective project ideas for this year can be found at:
http://epo.means.no/gsoc2011/ideas, though i must stress that a student
can suggest any idea they wish to the mentoring org.

If anyone wishes to join in and be a mentor for this year then please
contact Rafl a.s.a.p.

Thanks

-Mark

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