Google's Summer of Code 2006 'is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects'. As of tomorow, May 1th, students can send their applications to Google. Google is accepting proposals until May 8th.
As you might already have noticed, you also can apply to help the ejabberd project. But why should you apply for an ejabberd project over another project? I've three reasons:
- Jabber/XMPP is hot.
- Instant messaging is hot.
- Adopted by industry leaders like Google and Apple.
- A great opportunity to learn Erlang.
- Remove the item "learning Erlang" from your TODO list.
- Learn more about concurrency, distribution, and robustness.
- Learn by contributing to one of the most popular Erlang-based projects.
- ejabberd is widespread.
- There are a lot of ejabberd deployments.
- And thus many end-users will be able to profit from your contributions.
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