From: Charles Oliver Nutter Date: 2013-04-10T04:59:53+09:00 Subject: Re: JRuby's Google Summer of Code 2013! Oh certainly not! We're looking for all levels of students. "Older" students are often better candidates for more involved projects and often more likely to return as contributors, so you and your classmates are quite welcome! The Java background certainly doesn't hurt either :-) There's a wider range of interesting projects available for folks that know both Ruby and Java rather than just Ruby. On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:55 PM, D. Deryl Downey wrote: > Will do. I'm currently in college (first semester) studying java. I'll pass > it along to my classmates. Most of us are the 'older' generation just gone > back to school. Does that impact, meaning are you primarily focusing on > finding the younger crowd?