* Ian Clarke <ian@???> [2006-04-19 10:46:03]:
> I have signed us up to be a mentoring organization for the Google
> Summer of Code, which you can read more about here:
>
> http://code.google.com/soc/
>
> I'm still figuring this out, but it seems that we can submit ideas,
> and can select "mentors" from within the project, and then students
> can submit proposals to us, which we can accept or reject, and they
> then work on those proposals over the Summer with the help of the
> mentors. I think the organization gets $500 per student, and the
> student gets $4500.
>
> So, if anyone has ideas for self-contained Freenet-related projects,
> I guess you need to let me know (although I have not yet figured out
> how to submit these ideas to Google - there is probably an automated
> mechanism). And if anyone out there is a student and meets Google's
> criteria, check out the Summer of Code site and submit your ideas
> when the time comes.
>
I've created a wiki page dedicated to this purpose :
http://wiki.freenetproject.org/SummerOfCode
I will apply to the SoC, my project is likely to be something about
Freemail (
https://emu.freenetproject.org/svn/trunk/apps/Freemail/README).
Details will come with my final proposal.
NextGen$
