It may have taken me four months to send this year's first
nmap-hackers mail, but the second only took me four hours. I want to
let you all know that Nmap has been accepted for the fourth year
running to participate in the Google Summer of Code program. This
generous and innovative program provides $4,500 stipends to hundreds
of university students to create or enhance open source software.
Applications are only accepted for one week, until Monday, March 31.
If you are a college student in any country, I'd strongly encourage you to apply for Nmap SoC. There aren't many opportunities available to get paid to work on free software of your choice, and this is one of them. The last three years have been great! Even if you aren't a student, perhaps you have a talented friend or relative who might be interested. This program is a great benefit to Nmap, and the benefit is proportional to the quality of applicants we get. So please spread the word! Some SoC students have turned into long-term Nmap developers and are still writing great new code. Several have become SoC mentors to guide new Nmap SoC students.
Summer of code successes in recent years have lead to the 2nd
Generation OS detection system, the Zenmap GUI, the runtime
interaction feature which tells you how soon your scan is likely to
finish, and much more. Here are more Nmap SoC success stories:
- 2007: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0024.html
- 2006: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q1/0235.html
- 2005: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183143&cid=15133184
If you or someone you know are interested, you can send them to the Nmap 2008 project ideas page at:
http://nmap.org/GoogleGrants.html
And you can learn more about the program in general at:
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
544 bytes more >>
