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Google is gearing up for their 4th year Summer of Code 2008, where students developers get paid $4,500 to write code for various open source projects over the summer, starting about May 26 and ending around August 11.
Students are paired with mentors, (a group running open source projects), such as Mozilla Foundation, Drupal, OpenOffice.org, Wikimedia Foundation, One Laptop Per Child and Google, to name a few from the 2007 program.
To qualify as a student, you have to be enrolled at a college or university as of April 14, 2008 and no, you don't have to be a computer engineer major to apply, but it is helpful to know how to code. Sorry to those who hail from Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Mynamar (Burma), who are ineligible to participate due to U.S. law.
Google is expecting over 130 organizations to be paired with over 900 students for 2008. The goal of the program is to inspire students to work on open source projects, and to help open source projects recruit more developers.
Applications for mentor organizations are being accepted March 3-12, 2008 and student applications will be accepted March 24-31, 2008.
