GCC has been approved as a supported project for Google's Summer of
Code 2007. Summer of Code is a program in which Google pays students
to work on open source projects.
Now we need people to sign up as mentors. As a rule of thumb I think
mentors should be restricted to people listed in the MAINTAINERS file,
which still gives us plenty to choose from.
If you are interested, please sign up at
http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html
The benefits of being a mentor for a student are the chance to help
him or her learn about gcc and increase the number of people who work
on it. And, of course, gcc will improve. Plus I think that the
mentor gets a T-shirt.
If you sign up as a mentor, you will be able to vote on the projects
submitted to Summer of Code for gcc. That will be helpful even if you
don't wind up acting as a mentor for any specific project.
For each approved and completed project, the student will receive
$4500, and the gcc project will receive $500. As we did last year,
our share of the money will go to the Free Software Foundation.
That URL again:
http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html
Thanks!
Ian
