# GSoC applications open today

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 23, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gsoc-applications-open-today/163679 "2009-03-23T21:48:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeremy\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jeremy\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremy_k)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gsoc-applications-open-today/163679/1 "2009-03-23T21:48:25Z")

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Google Summer of Code student applications start today!

College students: follow your open source passion this summer and let  
Google foot the bill. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program  
that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open  
source software projects.

RubyCentral didn’t make it in as a mentoring organization this year,  
so Rails is opening the gates to any project in the broader Ruby  
ecosystem rather than solely Rails development. We will prefer strong  
Rails applicants if the pool of dedicated, energetic mentors is too  
small to give all projects the attention they deserve.

So Rubyists, step up! Please consider mentoring a student this summer.  
It’s a significant responsibility (estimate 5 hours/week) but mutually  
rewarding and immensely beneficial to the community at large. Sign up  
at the GSoC site [1] and join the discussion in the GSoC Campfire room  
[2].

Students, now’s the time to brainstorm and come up with a summer  
project you feel passionate about. Check out and contribute to the  
ideas list on the Rails wiki [3], start a discussion on the Rails core  
list [4], and chat with mentors in the GSoC Campfire room [2]. Come up  
with a concrete, attainable set of goals for the summer, and start  
writing up an application [5]. You can work on your application from  
now until the deadline, April 3 [6].

Best regards, and good luck!  
jeremy

[1] [http://socghop.appspot.com/mentor/request/google/gsoc2009/rails](http://socghop.appspot.com/mentor/request/google/gsoc2009/rails)  
[2] [https://rails.campfirenow.com/33511](https://rails.campfirenow.com/33511)  
[3] [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/gsoc/2009/ideas](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/gsoc/2009/ideas)  
[4] [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core)  
[5] [http://socghop.appspot.com/student/apply/google/gsoc2009](http://socghop.appspot.com/student/apply/google/gsoc2009)  
[6]  
[http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline](http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline)

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**Author:** ![jeremy\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jeremy\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeremy_k)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gsoc-applications-open-today/163679/2 "2009-03-28T01:20:06Z")

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Jeremy K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Rails applicants if the pool of dedicated, energetic mentors is too  
> ideas list on the Rails wiki [3], start a discussion on the Rails core  
> [3] [http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/gsoc/2009/ideas](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/gsoc/2009/ideas)  
> [4] [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core)  
> [5] [http://socghop.appspot.com/student/apply/google/gsoc2009](http://socghop.appspot.com/student/apply/google/gsoc2009)  
> [6] [http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline](http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc2009/timeline)

Aaaand we’ve started a mailing list!

[http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-gsoc](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-gsoc)

Students and mentors, please join. Everyone else is welcome too 🙂

jeremy