Summer of Code/2010

Thank you for supporting Sugar Labs in 2010. We look forward to accepting your contributions to support the use of technology in education. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is "a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects."1

Sugar Labs' Google SoC page: http://socghop.appspot.com/org/show/google/gsoc2009/sugarlabs

Person to Contact
Need help? Contact Tim McNamara. He's responsible for,


 * Maintaining this wiki page for the summer 2010 GSoC season (Feb 2010 - Sep 2010),
 * Coordinating SL's application to the GSoC program as a mentorship organization,
 * Recruiting mentors,
 * Recruiting applicants,
 * Selecting applicants,
 * Supervising mentors, which largely entails making sure mid-term and end-of-summer reports are handed in on time,
 * Interfacing with the Sugar Labs Oversight Board members to deal with collection and distribution of funds from Google

Some external links

 * Google Summer of Code Page
 * Google Open Source Programs Office
 * Google's Open Source Blog
 * Program Timeline