The projects have been chosen, now it’s up to the students to apply for certain tasks. So if you are a student and you have spare time left, need a little bit of money and you want to help the open source community, then go to:

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/students-apply-now-for-google-summer-of.html

And check the available projects and tasks :-)

news

I held a talk about things to consider, when you’re starting an open source project and what you can do to keep it alive. The talk is in german (sorry, no subtitles, but the talk is the insparation for this blog, so you can more or less read what I have talked about here). I have fixed the sound, because the microphone had some minor problems. There are a few minutes where the sound is a little bit crappy.

See the video here: Froscon “Open Source Projekte starten und am Leben halten” auf Vimeo

froscon · news · talk · video

It’s time again. If you want google to pay someone, so he helps in your project, apply now!

http://code.google.com/soc

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external-help · news

For us developers, it’s easy to write the code, but that is not all a good project needs to do. You have to provide information on your project, the releases, the schedules and how to use your software. That’s a bunch of work, how can you fulfill the user expectations?
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early-phase · hosting · introduction · talk

Choosing the right scheme for the version numbers is not as easy as it sounds. There are many implications that you may not think of in the first place. Selecting a version scheme without thinking is like selecting a name without thinking and you don’t wouldn’t do that, would you?

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communication · early-phase · introduction · naming · release-planning · talk

early-phase · introduction · release-planning · talk