Google Summer of Code 2013: List of mentoring organizations is out

[Nikhil Patil]

GSoC is free and open-source software coding project during the summer (duration 3 months) sponsored by Google. It's all about fun, experience, contacts along with money (5000 USD), fame.

GSoC  is a program in which you get to work on a project for another existing open-source project.You might get a chance to work on improving some part of Mozilla Firefox or even your favourite python libraries! GSoC is organized and sponsored by Google.Students from all over the world can apply for contributing in open source projects in GSoC. Students in turn get cash reward of 5000 USD (approx. Rs. 2.5L), a participating certificate from Google and an awesome t-shirt.

Student applications starts on 22nd April. Deadline: 3rd May.

This is an interesting Blog on GSoC http://vaidikkapoor.info/blog/google-summer-of-code.html

GSOC Website: http://www.google-melange.com
GSOC 2013 Timeline: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013

GSOC Student Guide: http://www.booki.cc/gsocstudentguide/

GSOC General Mailing List:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss

List of Mentoring Organizations in 2013:
http://www.googlemelange.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2013

Google for "GSOC experience" to get first-hand accounts of students @
GSOC with various projects

Look for "GSOC" pages on websites of the open-source projects you are
interested in, to see what kind of projects they will accept


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Thanks and Regards,

Nikhil Patil,
Second Year M.Tech.
Department of Computer Science & Engg.,
IIT Bombay
Email: nikhil.p...@gmail.com / nik...@cse.iitb.ac.in
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