SilverStripe to mentor 10 Google Summer Students

SilverStripe to mentor 10 Google Summer of Code students

Google has selected 900 of the world’s brightest programming students from a pool of 6,200 applicants for the Google Summer of Code 2007.

Google Summer of Code is an annual programme in which Google, mentoring organisations, and students collaborate to make great software freely available on the web.

SilverStripe, the first New Zealand organisation ever to be accepted into Google Summer of Code, has been entrusted to mentor 10 of those students. SilverStripe has been awarded US$50,000 by Google for this task.

The students are from Austria, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Sri Lanka, and USA. Students will work on SilverStripe projects from their home countries.

Projects are aimed at making websites easier to build and maintain, and offer an exciting challenge for programming students. Projects include:

• Making SilverStripe websites rank more highly in Google searches


• Translating SilverStripe into other languages


• Integrating popular web applications such as Flickr with SilverStripe

The projects will become part of the standard free distribution of SilverStripe. Students will also be encouraged to contribute to SilverStripe’s growing online community.

“Our partnership with Google Summer of Code students further supports SilverStripe’s commitment to open source software development, which fuels the free and interoperable web.” Tim Copeland, Founder, SilverStripe

SilverStripe are the primary developers of the open source SilverStripe CMS/framework, written in PHP/MySQL. It is freely downloadable, and is used by many New Zealand businesses and government agencies to run their websites. SilverStripe is based in Wellington, and provides consulting and technical support to web developers and those who need websites.

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