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What is Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. It has taken place for the last three years and the last year 130 organizations and 900 students took part in the program. In order to participate in the program, you must be a student. The stipend is worth 5000 USD per accepted student developer - 4500 USD goes to the student and 500 USD goes to the mentoring organization.

For more information about the program see http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

What is SharpDevelop

SharpDevelop is a open source IDE for C#, VB.NET and other languages on the .NET platform - Boo and F# are supported ‘out of the box', AddIns for other languages like IronPython are available separately. It is an alternative to Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET. It includes features like forms designer, code completion, code generation, integrated debugger, refactoring support, SVN integration, code conversion between C# and VB.NET, integrated support for testing and many others. SharpDevelop is translated by the community to over 18 languages and it is downloaded over 1000 times each day.

For more information see http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

Timeline

March 17: List of accepted mentoring organizations published on code.google.com/soc/ (~12 noon PDT/19:00 UTC).{BR} March 24: Student application period opens (~12 noon PDT/19:00 UTC).{BR} March 31: Student application deadline 5:00 PM PDT/00:00 UTC April 1, 2008.

For the whole timeline see http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_timeline

Mentors

David Srbecky Email: dsrbecky(at)gmail.com
MSN: dsrbecky(at)gmail.com
Skype: dsrbecky
ICQ: 153888796
Daniel Grunwald Email: daniel(at)danielgrunwald.de
Matt Ward Email: mrward(at)users.sourceforge.net
Bernhard Spuida

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. {BR} You can also reach us thought the public forum: http://community.sharpdevelop.net/forums/

How to apply

You need to submit your application before the 31th March. {BR} See this page for some advice: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforStudents

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