10.02.2007 11:53 PM |
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For a couple of years, I have been informed by Microsoft about the Imagine Cup, where students in groups pit it out against each other in a variety of subject areas to be the best group to complete the deliverables to do with computing. However, I always thought that it looked a little too difficult and that I couldn’t enter anyway.
Now that I’m a university student and its the time of year for the event again, my department invited students to take part in the Imagine Cup and put the University of Reading on the map as finalists or even winners!
I have yet to decide firmly on the group or the deliverable we will be aiming for, but hopefully these admin tasks will be completed soon and we’ll be able to concentrate on the actual work, although I’m not quite sure how well it’ll work out in practice, juggling the Imagine Cup with assignments, helping out with two web projects and working part time. Hopefully there will be enough time for all of these plus time to socialise and maybe even sleep a little!
In any case, I’ll post here throughout the event and keep everybody abreast of what’s going on. Let’s hope we can build something quite good that’ll impress the judges…
Ahh so i’ve been rejected from Google’s Summer of Code 2006. I then found out via Gerv Markham that according to him, Mozilla made some mistakes when setting up the list of approved projects around which applications could be submitted for the Summer of Code. Looking back at my application, I can see that the project that I chose was obviously too small, and so I hope that next time, a little more thought is given to the projects listed on the page so that students can be sure that the listed ones qualify. I’m not going to go around blaming others as I can’t say that my application was perfect (in fact, it was far from it as this was my first time), but maybe other people had good applications but were turned down for choosing an “approved” project which was deemed to be unacceptable.
Google’s Summer of Code 2006 closed its doors to new applicants yesterday, and I’ve submitted two applications for open source projects to do over the summer.
The Summer of Code, which also ran last year, is a Google sponsored event which pays developers to help out with open source software projects by clearing bug-fixing backlogs, coding new features or even evangelising.
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