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====== Overview ====== | ====== Overview ====== | ||
- | Since 2011, the European Space Agency (ESA) has run an awesome open source software development program, called the [[http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis/|Summer of Code in Space]] (SoCIS), which specifically targets ''students''. Under this program, ESA funds students to write code for open source projects during the northern hemisphere's summer timeframe. TARDIS, a scientific code to study exploding stars, participates in this program to get young minds engaged in scientific software development. The process is as follows: | + | Since 2011, the European Space Agency (ESA) has run an awesome open source software development program, called the [[http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis/|Summer of Code in Space]] (SoCIS), which specifically targets ''students''. Under this program, ESA funds students to write code for open source projects during the northern hemisphere's summer timeframe. TARDIS, a scientific code to study exploding stars, participates in this program to get young minds engaged in scientific software development. |
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+ | **IMPORTANT: ONLY STUDENTS FROM ESA MEMBER STATES ARE ELIGIBLE** | ||
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+ | The process is as follows: | ||
* The student writes a project proposal for TARDIS. | * The student writes a project proposal for TARDIS. | ||
* Sometimes their project idea caters to something that the TARDIS collaboration suggests and sometimes it's an idea entirely of the student's conception. | * Sometimes their project idea caters to something that the TARDIS collaboration suggests and sometimes it's an idea entirely of the student's conception. | ||
* Proposals are reviewed, evaluated, and ranked by the TARDIS collaboration. | * Proposals are reviewed, evaluated, and ranked by the TARDIS collaboration. | ||
- | * Google allocates a certain number of slots to each participating organization | + | * ESA allocates one slot to each participating organization |
* That, in turn, determines how many student developers work with the TARDIS collaboration. | * That, in turn, determines how many student developers work with the TARDIS collaboration. | ||
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====== The Selection Process ====== | ====== The Selection Process ====== | ||
- | SoCIS is about getting people involved and contributing to open source over the long-term. As such, we heavily weight our application selection process towards students that are interested in remaining involved in BRL-CAD and open source software development long after SoCIS has ended. | + | SoCIS is about getting people involved and contributing to open source over the long-term. As such, we heavily weight our application selection process towards students that are interested in remaining involved in TARDIS and open source software development long after SoCIS has ended. |
**SoCIS is not a job!** If you think this is just a summer job, then SoCIS is probably not for you. It's only like a job in terms of planning your time commitment over the summer. | **SoCIS is not a job!** If you think this is just a summer job, then SoCIS is probably not for you. It's only like a job in terms of planning your time commitment over the summer. |