[Dspace-general] Please Promote DSpace @ Google Summer of Code to your students and at OR08...

[Mark Diggory]

Community,

There has been a formal announcement on the GSoC website of an  
extension until next Monday (April 7th). So you let your students  
know they have another week to polish their proposals and add/or  
comments to existing ones.

http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

Cheers,
Mark

On Mar 28, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Mark Diggory wrote:

> DSpace Community,
>
> While its not fully official yet, it really looks like we will have  
> another week to accept student applications for GSoC.  Its been  
> determined that many students were away on vacation during the last  
> couple weeks  and the topic is getting allot of response on the  
> mentors list.
>
> We have less than 1/4 the applicants we had last year (3), If we  
> don't get more proposals, there will not be as good a pool of  
> applications to choose the top few from. So "Get the Word Out"  
> while your at the Conference and let your community know that now  
> is the time for students to sign up!
>
> Proposals do not have to be based on the ideas documented on our  
> page/wiki. If your a university student and you think to have a  
> good idea for a software project that involves DSpace, put in an  
> application and see where it takes you. Participation in Google  
> Summer of Code will look great on your Resume'!
>
> Applications and IDeas can be accessed at the following locations!
>
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce/web/ 
> guide-to-the-gsoc-web-app-for-student-applicants
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/dspace/about.html
>

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Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Developer and Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology