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Submission + - Google Summer of Code announces mentor projects!

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mithro

on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @07:14PM

mithro writes: "As everyone should already know, Google is running the Summer of Code again this year. For those who don't know, GSoC is where Google funds student's to participate in Open Source projects and has been running for 5 years, bringing together over 2600 students and 2500 mentors from nearly 100 countries worldwide. Google has just announced the projects which will be mentor organizations this year. It includes a great list of Open Source projects from a wide range of different genres, include content management systems, compilers, many programming languages and even a bunch of games!"

Comment Gaming Projects (Score 1) 101

by mithro on Sunday May 18, 2008 @02:42AM (#23451008) Attached to: 2008 Google Summer of Code Highlights

As the article mentions Google ended up funding a number of Gaming projects. There are a total of 7 game projects and 5 game related projects for a total of over 40 slots.

The following game projects have been accepted,

Battle for Wesnoth (projects), a very cool turn based strategy game in the theme of Heroes of Might and Magic.
BZFlag (projects), the classic tank first person shooter game. One of the oldest open source games around!
Linden Lab (projects), the makers of Second Life the largest "almost game like" online universe.
ScummVM (projects), an engine which lets you play all the classic Lucas Arts games and many more!
Thousand Parsec (projects), a framework for building 4x empire building games. Been around since 2001 and growing quickly.
Tux4Kids (projects), a group of multi-platform open source educational games for children.
WorldForge (projects), one of the original open source MMORPG which has even been mentioned on Slashdot multiple times (original called Altima).

My own project Thousand Parsec got 8 slots for a number of critical features. One of the coolest is a 3d client, which should make the games much more interesting to look at.

We will also finally have a few more interesting games to actually play, including a clone of Risk in Space and a very interesting game called DroneSec. Finally, we should have some opponents for you to play against as 2 AI clients being developed for our premier RFTS ruleset.

Submission + - Summer of Code deadline extended! (blogspot.com)

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mithro

on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @07:11PM

mithro writes: "If you thought that you had missed out on applying to the Google Summer of Code, you have just gotten a reprieve. The deadline for student submissions has been extended from the original 1st of April to Monday the April 7, 2008. To quote Leslie Hawthorn,

This year, we experimented with the Google Summer of Code program timeline, providing one week for students to discuss project ideas with their mentors and then a single week to submit applications. The good news is that we've heard that overall application quality is much higher this year and that students have really benefited from the opportunity to have extra time to discuss their ideas with their potential mentors. However, we've still heard feedback from the community that it would be useful to provide more time for students to submit their applications, so we've done just that.

With less then a week ago, there is still time! Many of the mentor organisations are clamouring for more good applications and there is still a good chance to be accepted."

Submission + - Summer of Code'08 - Organizations List Announced (blogspot.com) 1

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kulbirsaini

on Monday March 17, 2008 @05:46PM

kulbirsaini writes: "Google has announced the list of accepted organizations for the Google Summer of Code 2008. Checkout this for the list. Open Source world is going to see a huge code contributed this summer. Checkout Google Open Source blog for details."

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by kulbirsaini on Monday March 17, 2008 @05:41PM

A Walk in the Sex Park 2

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 17, 2008 @01:01PM

Dog owners in Amsterdam are upset that the city has promised to clampdown on people who let their pets walk in one of the cities most famous parks without a leash. They wouldn't be as outraged if the city hadn't also legalized public sex in the same park. A spokesman for the council said, "When the dogs are not kept on a leash they pee on whatever they see and they cause a lot of nuisance for other visitors." Alderman Paul Van Grieken added, "Why should we oppose a rule on something you can't oppose a rule on. Moreover it isn't a nuisance for the other visitors and gives a lot of pleasure to a certain group of people. There still are rules, They must take their garbage with them afterwards and never have intercourse near the playground. The sex must be limited to the evening hours and night."

Submission + - Summer of Code Org Application Deadline Approaches (google.com)

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chrisd

on Friday March 07, 2008 @03:48PM

chrisd writes: "Hey everyone, just wanted to drop a line reminding open source projects that they only have until March 12th (pst) to apply for Google's Summer of Code. We are accepting more organizations this year than last because we want to add a couple hundred more students to the program, so if you are part of a great project or know someone who is, we'd love to see an application. Please note that this is for organization and not for prospective students, that's not for a few more weeks (see the rogram timeline). Thanks!"

Submission + - Google Summer of Code 2008 is Announced (blogspot.com)

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morrison

on Monday February 25, 2008 @03:31PM

morrison writes: "The 2008 Google Summer of Code(TM) is on! As previously covered before and now in its fourth year running, Google announces that they will once again be hosting a program that gives computer science students a $4500 stipend to work on open source software projects. Last year, Google funded over 900 students' projects in more than 90 countries. As noted in the program FAQ, this year they hope to do even more. The #gsoc IRC channel on Freenode is already buzzing with activity."

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