[vox] Meeting made the paper

[Kevin Schultz]

Thanks for sharing the link Alex! :)

My notes from the meeting:

Check Google of Code web site in February 2008 for applications and such:
http://code.google.com/soc

requirements: 18+ years of age, enrolled as a student in April of year of
application

Hackers prefer to congregate at pubs (versus coffeehouses?)

After one year people might be able to become their own mentor

Breakdown:

GNOME: 40 kids
KDE: 40 kids
Ubuntu: 20 kids

$4.5 million budget

By country:

300 USA kids
100 Canadian kids
300 European kids
rest around the world (only 1 living in Africa)

Dan Kagel (sp?) from the "Republic of WINE <http://www.winehq.org/>"

Leslie Hawthorn presented.  She works for Chris Bower

Giant t-rex at Google

Google hosting the KDE <http://www.kde.org/> 4 release party in January



On 10/17/07, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, not a perfect article but the Lugod meeting made the front page of
> the Aggie today
>
> http://media.www.californiaaggie.com/media/storage/paper981/news/2007/10/=
17/CityNews/Google.Offers.Summer.Jobs.To.Students-3037076.shtml
>

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