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Submission + - ESA Summer of Code (esa.int)

Submitted by phyr
phyr writes: ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) is a program run by the European Space Agency. It aims at offering student developers stipends to write code for various space-related open source software projects. Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Applicants must be attending a European or Canadian university and will receive 4000 Euros for supporting one of the accepted open source projects. Applicants have until May 15th to submit their proposals and resumes. I'm particularly interested to have exceptional proposals for the NEST project.

Submission + - ESA Summer of Code Needs Student Developers (esa.int)

Submitted by phyr
phyr writes: We're looking for student developers. The turn out for this years summer of code in space is very poor.
ESA's Summer of Code in Space is modeled after Google's summer of code where students are paid for participating in the development of open source projects.
You need to be a student currently enrolled at a university in an ESA member state (Most of Europe and Canada). ESA will pay students 4000 Euros for completing a project before the end of October. Check out the NEST ideas page for a list of priority projects or propose your own.
The following projects have had none or little responses: NEST, Gerbil, NS-3, Octave, Stellarium, ICML, CoolFluid3, Pocket Mission Control, PyBRML, AstroPy, KStarts.
Go to ESA SOCIS and apply today! The deadline is Aug 4th.

Submission + - ESA Summer of Code In Space Application Deadline 1

Submitted by joelsherrill
joelsherrill writes: August 8 is the deadline for students to apply to participate in the European Space Agency's Summer of Code In Space (http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2013/). This is a great opportunity to contribute to the use of free and open source software in the space community and get paid. Eligible students should look through the list of software projects participating (http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2013/?q=node/13) and see what interests them.

As the organization administrator for the RTEMS Project (http://www.rtems.org), I am honored to be participating again and can't wait to see what students propose.

Submission + - ESA Summer of Code in Space 2012 (esa.int)

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phyr
phyr writes: "The European Space Agency is looking for student coders to join the Summer of Code in Space. ESA will pay 4000 Euros to each student for contributing to a space related open source project for the summer. Accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios. Mentor organizations have been selected. Students now have until July 27 to submit their applications. Check out the ideas pages of each project such as for the NEST SAR Toolbox"

Comment Re:Not exactly new (Score 1) 70

by phyr (#38226814) Attached to: UK Plans Space Based Radar System
What's new here is that they are trying to get a constellation up very cheap (20M) and expect to get a 50:1 return on investment.
The sensors themselves aren't that impressive and low resolution when compared to RADARSAT-2, TerraSAR-X and CosmoSkymed.

Let's hope they fund some new work into the GPL SAR Toolbox NEST http://www.array.ca/nest

Comment Remote Sensing Toolboxes (Score 2) 18

by phyr (#36609092) Attached to: ESA Opens To Open Source Code Development
With all the new data that is and will be freely available to everyone, we could use some SoC help on the open source toolboxes BEAM, NEST and others.
Please send in your ideas on what could be worked on for NEST here
NEST could definitely benefit from more GIS functionality with more integration with GeoTools or other Java GIS libraries.

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