Get your Google Summer of Code proposal in now! They’re due by noon tomorrow.
Don’t miss out on your chance to get paid to work on open source software for the summer!
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It’s that time of year again! Google has renewed the Summer of Code program for 2009.
Google is going to pay students $4,500 to work on some of the coolest open source projects in the world. The OSU OSL has been accepted as a mentoring organization again for 2009. Interested in working with the OSL this summer? Check out our ideas page and submit a proposal!
The application deadline is April 3rd at noon Pacific time. Coding starts on May 23rd.
Are you going to the Open Source Bridge conference in Portland in June? Hopefully I’ll see you there. I’ve submitted a proposal to talk about what we’re doing here at the OSL to support the Oregon Virtual School District.
Since I run a lot of Drupal and Moodle servers, it’s a good idea to keep up to date on all the published vulnerabilities. I’d really prefer to have some tool that lets me know when a new vulnerability is found, so I don’t have to keep checking back at a bunch of different web sites on the off chance a new vulnerability has been found. Fortunately, the Department of Homeland Security has an excellent site that provides RSS feeds of the vulnerabilities in their database. Handy, but a serious case of information overload since the feeds cover everything in their database.
Hmm. Distinctly suboptimal. Perhaps this is a good time to play with Yahoo Pipes? I’d looked at it before, but had never gotten around to actually building a pipe. This seems like a nice simple thing to try. Continue reading ‘Dabbling with Yahoo Pipes’