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Nmap accepting applications for Summer of Code developers
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:04:25 -0700
It may have taken me four months to send this year's first nmap-hackers mail, but the second only took me four hours. I want to let you all know that Nmap has been accepted for the fourth year running to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. This generous and innovative program provides $4,500 stipends to hundreds of university students to create or enhance open source software. Applications are only accepted for one week, until Monday, March 31. If you are a college student in any country, I'd strongly encourage you to apply for Nmap SoC. There aren't many opportunities available to get paid to work on free software of your choice, and this is one of them. The last three years have been great! Even if you aren't a student, perhaps you have a talented friend or relative who might be interested. This program is a great benefit to Nmap, and the benefit is proportional to the quality of applicants we get. So please spread the word! Some SoC students have turned into long-term Nmap developers and are still writing great new code. Several have become SoC mentors to guide new Nmap SoC students. Summer of code successes in recent years have lead to the 2nd Generation OS detection system, the Zenmap GUI, the runtime interaction feature which tells you how soon your scan is likely to finish, and much more. Here are more Nmap SoC success stories: 2007: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0024.html 2006: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q1/0235.html 2005: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183143&cid=15133184 If you or someone you know are interested, you can send them to the Nmap 2008 project ideas page at: http://nmap.org/GoogleGrants.html And you can learn more about the program in general at: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ Since you can apply for more than one project, I'd like to mention some other security projects which were accepted, along with their ideas pages: OSVDB: The Open Source Vulnerability Database: http://osvdb.org/blog/?p=231 OSSIM: Open Source Security Information Management: http://www.ossim.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ideas The Electronic Frontier Foundation/Tor Project: https://www.torproject.org/volunteer.html.en#Projects Freenet Project: http://wiki.freenetproject.org/SummerOfCode2008 So please get those applications in by Monday, or help spread the word! Cheers, Fyodor _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-hackers mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-hackers Archived at http://seclists.org
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