From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-06-01T06:38:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Google pays students to develop open source

On 5/31/05, Bill Katz <billkatz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hadn't seen this mentioned here... Google is providing $4500 for each
> top student to develop open source software. Current "Mentoring
> Organizations" include python and perl software foundations, and I was
> wondering if any leading Rubyists had talked to Google.
> 
> http://code.google.com/mentfaq.html
> 
> Unfortunately the deadline may be today (or pretty soon), but it still
> says it's not too late for new mentoring organizations. Given the
> recent Ruby Central grants...
> 

Good stuff, and it's just starting:

"May 31st: Announce on code.google.com and open application process"
"June 24th: Final applications approved. Cut $500 checks for initial funding."


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Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)