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DuraSpace

GSoC

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For specific deadlines and registration information, please visit the Google Summer of Code website.

DuraSpace Technology

DuraSpace is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization that provides leadership and innovation in open source and cloud-based technologies primarily for libraries, universities, research centers, and cultural heritage organizations. DuraSpace software and services are used worldwide as solutions for institutional repositories, open access publishing, digital libraries, digital archives, digital collections, data curation, virtual research environments, and more. DuraSpace is committed to serving the creators and stewards of our scholarly, scientific, and cultural heritage by providing technologies and services that help to ensure that digital content is accessible over the long term. Accordingly, the DuraSpace technology portfolio inherently addresses the issue of durability of digital content.

The DuraSpace organization provides leadership and innovation around four open technology platforms:

• DSpace
• Fedora Commons
• Mulgara
• DuraCloud

Not all of these platforms may provide projects for a given Google Summer of Code.  It all depends on whether or not mentors are available during that given year. See below for information about which DuraSpace open technologies have projects available for this year's Google Summer of Code.

GSoC 2010 Projects Available

For Google Summer of Code 2010, the following DuraSpace open technologies have projects available:

• DSpace
  • DSpace GSoC 2010 Information: Current Google Summer of Code Projects
  • DSpace Project Ideas Page: Google Summer of Code Ideas
  • DSpace Public / Developers Mailing List: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel

• •  
  • DSpace IRC: #dspace on the 'irc.freenode.net'

• • server

Please

note

that

for

GSoC

2010,

only

DSpace

technology

is

participating.

  Please

refer

to

the

links

above

if

you'd

like

to

work

on

a

DSpace

technology

project.

Student Application Process

The determination of appropriate projects is a collaborative effort between those community members (preferably developers) and students (preferably computer science students or adepts). We highly recommend that prospective students join the appropriate IRC channel and mailing lists and discuss project ideas with the community prior to submitting a proposal.  See the GSoC Information page (in "GSoC Project Available" section above) for a given DuraSpace technology for links to that technology's IRC channel(s) and mailing list(s).

The order of your proposal submission is irrelevant in the decision making process for selection. What is more important is that the mentors for your project have a strong interest in supporting it during the evaluation process.

Review the existing project ideas (see "GSoC Projects Available" section above) or suggest your own and place your student proposal at the GSoC Site: http://socghop.appspot.com

A

word

of

warning,

in

past

years,

bulk

applications

have

been

immediately

rejected

as

"insincere".

All

proposals

should

effectively

outline:

1. who

1. you

1. are

1. (i.e.

1. your

1. academic

1. background)

2. why

1. you

1. want

1. to

1. participate

2. what

1. you

1. propose

1. to

1. do

1. (and

1. with

1. which

1. DuraSpace

1. technology

1. or

1. technologies)

2. how

1. you

1. propose

1. to

1. do

1. it

2. a

1. clearly

1. defined

1. timeline/project

1. plan

2. a

1. code

1. sample

1. (preferably

1. Java)

1. or

1. reference

1. to

1. a

1. project

1. you've

1. worked

1. on

1. in

1. past

2. and

1. finally

1. your

1. general

1. contact

1. information

1. (email,

1. skype,

1. im,

1. etc.)

The

student

application

process

can

be

competitive.

  Last

year,

DSpace

technology

alone

received

about

30

applications,

of

which

only

4

projects

were

awarded

by

Google.

Yes,

that

is

correct,

we

do

not

select

how

many

students

can

ultimately

win.

  We

only

rank

them

according

to

the

community's

interest

in

mentoring

the

project.

Many

years

it

is

as

much

a

competition

between

the

mentors

as

it

is

the

students.

Good

luck

!

  We

look

forward

to

seeing

your

project

ideas

!

Past

GSoC

Projects

Below

is

a

listing

of

past

Google

Summer

of

Code

projects,

listed

by

DuraSpace

technology:

* [DSpace|http://www.dspace.org] ** DSpace GSoC 2009: [DSPACE:Past Google Summer of Code Projects] ** DSpace GSoC 2008: [DSPACE:Google Summer of Code 2008] ** DSpace GSoC 2007: [DSPACE:Google Summer of Code 2007]

• DSpace
  • DSpace GSoC 2009: Past Google Summer of Code Projects
  • DSpace GSoC 2008: Google Summer of Code 2008
  • DSpace GSoC 2007: Google Summer of Code 2007