From: Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-03-26T11:28:36+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Ruby Summer of Code 2010

Fellow Rubyists, I'm proud to announce the first annual Ruby Summer of Code.

In the best tradition of Google's legendary summers of code, Ruby
Central, Engine Yard [1], and the Rails team [2] have joined forces to
muster a legend of our own, a new summer program for student Rubyists
to flex their open source might.

* Students are paid a $5000 stipend to work full-time during their summer break.
* A group of Ruby gurus volunteer their time as mentors.
* Mentors vote on student proposals based on usefulness, benefit to
the Ruby community, and history of motivated open source contribution.

Check out http://rubysoc.org for the full story, to volunteer as a
mentor, and to sponsor a student.

Student applications begin on April 4. Students, start working on your
proposal now! Rails [3] and JRuby [4] have ideas lists up as a
starting point. All Ruby projects are welcome.

This is an entirely volunteer effort. The more we raise, the more
students we can sponsor. 100% of contributions go directly to
students. We already broke the $20,000 mark -- 4 summer students --
and we're aiming for *20* total.

Do you make a living using Ruby? Does your business live and breathe
Rails? It's a sweet and wonderful path. Donate today at
http://rubysoc.org.

Let's make this happen.

Best,
Jeremy Kemper

[1] http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/ruby-summer-of-code-is-here/
[2] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/3/24/ruby-summer-of-code
[3] http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rubysoc/2010/ideas
[4] http://wiki.jruby.org/RubySummerOfCode2010