[Sahana_proj] Google Summer of Code Opportunity

[Ralph Morelli]

Hi everyone,

In addition to our five summer H-FOSS internships sponsored by  
Aidmatrix---I will provide application details for these right after  
Spring break---here's another great opportunity to work on a  
humanitarian open-source project this summer.

Christian Allen, a Trinity alum from class of 2000, is working on an  
exciting Humanitarian Open Source project that has just won a Google  
Summer of Code grant.  Christian is currently living in Rwanda and  
writing code! He's asked me to circulate this announcement among  
upper-level CS students.  It looks like an exciting opportunity that  
would build on the skills and interests we've been developing in the  
course. I encourage you to take a look at it. The deadline to apply  
is March 24th.

Have a great break!

-- ram

Begin forwarded message:

> In fact, I am writing to you guys because I’m working on a large- 
> ish open source project right now, and we just (yesterday) won a  
> spot on the list for the Google Summer of Code contest.  The idea  
> is that Google selects a hundred or so open source projects that it  
> likes for whatever reason and pays students $5,000 to work on those  
> projects for 2 months of the summer.  Nice, huh?  So as you could  
> probably guess, I’m looking to see if there are any high caliber  
> Trinity Comp. Sci. students that might be interested in such a gig.
>
>
>
> Let me give you a little background, and fill you in a little on  
> what I’m doing right now, as it will help you guys explain to  
> students if need be.  I am working right now for a small but  
> rapidly growing non-profit organization called Partners In Health.   
> It’s based in Boston, and builds up health care and tries to fight  
> poverty in resource-poor areas of the world.  Believe it or not,  
> after a 5 year stint writing code in the corporate world in Boston  
> and London, I’ve actually been based in a small village in Rwanda,  
> writing code, for a year and a half now.  Partners In Health, with  
> a number of other organizations around the world is collaborating  
> to build the world’s first enterprise quality Electronic Medical  
> Record (EMR) system that is open source (read: free), and designed  
> with developing countries in mind to help fight the war against  
> disease and poverty.  A small group of us (I was one of the 5  
> original developers to start working on it) has made a fair amount  
> of progress in the past 1.5 years, and now we are starting to  
> really gain momentum.  Our site is http://www.openmrs.org.
>
>
>
> So Google gives a pretty short application window.  In fact, the  
> window for student applications is from today until March 24th.   
> There’s all kinds of extra information on Google’s site: http:// 
> code.google.com/soc/ (we are the “OpenMRS” project there), and on  
> the FAQ at that site about the program: http://code.google.com/ 
> support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442.  You should also feel free to  
> give me email out to students who seems interested.
>
>
>
> I know you guys are busy, but if you have a chance and can post  
> this, or relay this information to higher-level students who might  
> be looking for coding jobs anyways, I would love to have some more  
> Bantams on board.  Below this email, I’ve written some of the  
> technologies we use in the project, in case that question is  
> asked.  If you guys don’t think you’ll have a chance to make this  
> public to the students, let me know if you can think of another way  
> I might reach them (quickly) before the deadline.
>
>
>
> Again, hope all is well there.  If this works out, I’m hoping maybe  
> I could visit the campus and say hi to you guys before the summer  
> gets going.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Christian
>
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>
>
>
> Ps: Some technologies/languages/platforms used in our project:
>
>
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> Java
>
> MySQL (SQL)
>
> JSP
>
> Servlets
>
> Spring
>
> Hibernate
>
> DWR/Ajax
>
> Dojo
>
> AOP
>
> XML
>
> Java Web Services
>
> SVN
>
> Eclipse
>
> Apache Tomcat

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