On 2011-03-19 Helen wrote:

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Manu Gupta <manugupt1@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi All

I am too excited and am righting in a lot of joy. Congrats to all openSUSE is selected for GSoC more to come later :D let me enjoy now

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What wonderful news. Congratulations and many thanks to the members of the team who put together the proposal, and to those stepping up to be mentors for the program. Really looking forward to seeing the program in progress!

Well, this was just step one. Now we need to go to universities and spread the word about this, try to get students to come up with good plans! The more serious proposals we have, the more likely it is we get a good number of slots from Google. In Nurnberg a group of ppl went to the university to hang up posters. I hope they are willing to put the sources online so other ambassadors can follow this example?!? Moreover, I have written a text which might be used on a folder to inform students about GSOC, see attached. Feel free to translate and use it, comments are welcome! If you need artwork, find it at the links below (in SVG format, you can use Inkscape to create something with it or translate it): http://gitorious.org/opensuse-artwork/opensuse- artwork/trees/master/posters http://gitorious.org/opensuse-artwork/opensuse- artwork/trees/master/flyers http://gitorious.org/opensuse/art/trees/master/00assets/poster As I personally also would like to hang up some posters/GSOC stuff at the university here, so if anyone creates a nice A4 flyer/poster out of the text I have attached and the graphics above, that'd be awesome* :D Would also be nice to have for next year... Have fun and get us some students ;-) Cheers, Jos

Helen

* It would also ensure I don't have to fire up Inkscape and embarash myself with my horrible graphics/design/layouting skills... About Free Software, Google Summer of Code and openSUSE or: how to have more fun this summer! This summer you can spend your time in a way that is both more productive and more fun. Instead of bringing drinks around or cleaning rooms, you can do some coding in an exciting and innovative project while getting paid for it! About Google Summer of Code Each year, Google pays hundreds of IT students around the world to spend their summer writing code for a Free Software project. If you get selected, you'll be mentored by an expert in the area you'll work in while getting paid $5000 upon successful completion of your project. About Free Software "Free" or "Open Source" software is developed by companies and volunteers together instead of within just one company. And unlike 'normal' software, the Free Software license allows you to study, modify and freely share the code! Companies like IBM, Google, Facebook, HP, Intel and many others make extensive use of Free Software to provide better, cheaper products than the competition. Your mobile phone (Android, MeeGo or Symbian), your router at home - but also the super computers doing cancer research or the servers of pretty much every major website. Almost all of those run Linux or another Free Software operating system. And you can run it too, if you like. On a server at home or even on your desktop. About openSUSE openSUSE is one of the largest Linux distributions, well known for its focus on working together and having fun. We do more than 'just a Linux distribution', however. We create cool technology to help software developers distribute their software not just on openSUSE but also other Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora. And on susestudio.com you can build your own, custom Operating System with a large selection of software entirely from a web browser - and download it as VM or USB stick image! Set yourself apart from the masses... Free Software offers more freedom for the users but also lower prices and better products for companies. Free Software developers and sys admins therefor are popular and on average earn 40% more than the 1000th Java or Microsoft engineer. ... and have fun doing it You'll notice Free Software offers a far more interesting world to work in than the average software company. Free Software is much more dynamic, offers more freedom in your work and brings more opportunities to learn and have fun at the hundreds of conferences and meetings all around the world! Find more info about: Google Summer of Code: http://code.google.com/soc/ openSUSE and GSOC: http://en.opensuse.org/GSOC_2011 Free Software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/