Eclipse and Google Summer of Code 2009

March 16, 2009 | 1 min Read

I want to remind the Eclipse community that Google Summer of Code 2009 (GSOC) recruiting is in full swing now.

I can’t reiterate how awesome this program is for getting contributors and contributions to your project. As an example, one of my favorite recent contributions is a toString() generator that appeared in Eclipse 3.5 M6:

The code for this feature originated with Eclipse’s participation in GSOC 2008 and was done by GSOC student Mateusz Matela.

So what are you waiting for, post a project idea as there are deadlines! If you need more advice, my colleague Ian Bull recently blogged about his experience with GSOC and has useful information for both potential mentors and students. Finally, what’s better than free student labor for your open source project ;)?