[ANNOUNCE] Google Summer of Code: Students and Members needed

[Mark Keating]

Hi All, [1]

As you all know the Google Summer of Code gives students the chance to 
involve themselves with an open source project and this year the efforts 
on behalf of The Perl Foundation (TPF) are being run by Florian Ragwitz 
(Rafl).

The first stage of this process (the accepting of the mentoring 
organisation) has passed and the TPF have been accepted. You can now 
visit http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2011/tpf to 
view more details.

I am now asking for your help in spreading the message about the TPF and 
in looking for students to join in with this year's event. If you could 
pass this message on to any mailing list you are on, or share it with 
appropriate locations so that we can make this year the most successful 
year for Perl ever it would be much appreciated.

The main site for the Google Summer of Code is: 
http://www.google-melange.com/, a timeline for participation can be 
found at 
http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline. 
As you can see the student participation period opens on 28th March, so 
we have just one week to get the word around.

Some prospective project ideas for this year can be found at: 
http://epo.means.no/gsoc2011/ideas, though i must stress that a student 
can suggest any idea they wish to the mentoring org.

If anyone wishes to join in and be a mentor for this year then please 
contact Rafl a.s.a.p.

Thanks

-Mark

[1] I apologise for the cross posting that anyone receives, I am simply 
trying to get as broad an audience as possible.

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