Almost 4 days ago Google announced list of 1125 fortunate students that will be developing open-source projects this summer and get paid for it. Luckily, I’m within this group - here’s my quick report and initial thoughts.
I’ll probably end up with “initial report and quick thoughts”. Nevertheless, if you don’t know what Google Summer of Code is, check out official program website or Wikipedia. In short, one may compare it to normal software development internship, except two differences: you work on real open-source projects and coding is done remotely from where you reside currently (probably home, in most cases). This has a few consequences.
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