Google Summer of Code 2010: Get money for working on MacPorts

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-3-31 06:00 , Scott Haneda wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org
> <mailto:raimue at macports.org>> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> we are now accepting applications from students!
>>
>> You can visit
>>   <http://socghop.appspot.com/>http://socghop.appspot.com/
>> to apply now.
> 
> Looking over the suggested list of projects, I wanted to say, this is an
> awesome idea. It certainly will help MacPorts with some needed
> maintenance, features, or hopefully, totally out of the box features. 
> 
> I was curious, what was the outcome of last years gsoc with regard to
> MacPorts? What was done, how many total students were approved?

<http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeArchive>

> I believe it was on the WordPress blog I read that there is a 5000.00
> prize. Are most students shooting for that, meaning they are going to
> hit more high profile projects like WordPress?

Not a prize but a stipend, for all students who make satisfactory progress.

<http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#payments>

- Josh