Summer of Code - Get Paid to Work on Open Source This Summer
Google Summer of Code is an exciting opportunity for students to "intern" with
an open source project for a summer. The FreeBSD Project, as one of the most
successful and oldest open source projects, is an excellent place to do this
internship. Founded in 1993, the project now consists of several hundred
"committers" and tens of thousands of contributors. FreeBSD is the foundation
for many commercial products, including Apple's Mac OS X, NetApp's OnTap/GX,
Juniper's JunOS, as well countless other products, from Cisco anti-spam
appliances to Isilon's cluster storage hardware, and is widely used in the
Internet Service Provider and corporate IT worlds. Many of these sponsors
participate daily in the FreeBSD community, and students have the opportunity
to develop software in an exciting environment with many real world
applications, and under the mentorship of experienced developers.
After the summer ends, many of our students are sponsored by Google or the
FreeBSD Foundation to attend operating systems and open source conferences to
present on their work, and a significant number go on to become FreeBSD
developers. It's also a great job networking opportunity!
There are many dozens of example project ideas listed on the FreeBSD web site
here:
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html
and for many other open source organizations as well:
http://code.google.com/soc
Some of the example projects include working on embedded operating systems,
unix filesystems, network performance and implementing new network protocols,
and more. Most sample project ideas include developers you can contact to
discuss a proposal, and we recommend doing so in advance of submitting a
proposal. Strong C language skills are recommended for most projects.
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