Any guesses what this post will be about ?
Let me give you a hint. The nice command(runs on linux machines) has the same effect on a process's life which a good technical project or an amazing internship can do to your career.
I am sure you must have guessed it by now.
"Nice " command is used to increase the priority of process. Say if I know that a job is really lengthy and requires a lot of resources, I would probably want to decrease the priority so that higher priority jobs can run first.
In this article I am going to list a few resources/internship opportunity which you should not miss in college and these can really help you not only to make a good network with coders and programmers but also to earn a few brownie points for your resume.
1.) Google Summer of Code(GSOC)
The program invites students who meet their eligibility criteria to post applications that detail the software-coding project they wish to perform. These applications are then evaluated by the corresponding mentoring organisation. Every participating organisation must provide mentors for each of the project ideas received, if the organization is of the opinion that the project would benefit from them. The mentors then rank the applications and decide among themselves which proposals to accept. Google then decides how many projects each organization gets, and asks the organizations to mark at most that many projects accordingly.
It is not easy to come up with an idea just like that. You will have to use it and realize that what is missing or which feature/functionality can be added to enhance the usability of the project you have shown your interest in.
2.) Season of KDE (SoK)
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and OS X systems. It is known for its Plasma Desktop, a desktop environment provided as the default working environment on many Linux distributions
The goal of the community is to provide basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tools and documentation for developers to write stand-alone applications for the system.Season of KDE (SoK) is a program for people could not get accepted into Google Summer of Code. They will have a mentor from the KDE community to help them if any question arises or if they do not know how to continue.
3.) Anita Borg Scholarship-Only for girls sorry guys ! !
The scholarship is open to students at the Bachelors, Masters and PhD level who have at least one year of their program remaining. The scholarship value is around USD 1500–10000 and is competitively awarded based on essays and interviews. In addition, scholars and finalists usually have a retreat at a local Google office.
The program is run separately in several regions around the world, with local selection committees and retreats. Each program takes applications once per year, typically selecting one postgraduate and one undergraduate scholarship winner from among a group of 10–20 finalists.
4.) Contribute to open source
This is not an internship and neither will it pay you for the contributing to the project. However, it will give you amazing experience, provided you pick up an appropriate project. It not only proves that you are self-motivated to contribute to the open source and to take decisions by yourself but also proves that you have some exposure to real work.
So this is not an exhaustive list of all the internship opportunities or projects you can go for but this will give you good idea about other side projects which you can pursue very early in your career.
Let me give you a hint. The nice command(runs on linux machines) has the same effect on a process's life which a good technical project or an amazing internship can do to your career.
I am sure you must have guessed it by now.
"Nice " command is used to increase the priority of process. Say if I know that a job is really lengthy and requires a lot of resources, I would probably want to decrease the priority so that higher priority jobs can run first.
In this article I am going to list a few resources/internship opportunity which you should not miss in college and these can really help you not only to make a good network with coders and programmers but also to earn a few brownie points for your resume.
1.) Google Summer of Code(GSOC)
The program invites students who meet their eligibility criteria to post applications that detail the software-coding project they wish to perform. These applications are then evaluated by the corresponding mentoring organisation. Every participating organisation must provide mentors for each of the project ideas received, if the organization is of the opinion that the project would benefit from them. The mentors then rank the applications and decide among themselves which proposals to accept. Google then decides how many projects each organization gets, and asks the organizations to mark at most that many projects accordingly.
It is not easy to come up with an idea just like that. You will have to use it and realize that what is missing or which feature/functionality can be added to enhance the usability of the project you have shown your interest in.
2.) Season of KDE (SoK)
KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and OS X systems. It is known for its Plasma Desktop, a desktop environment provided as the default working environment on many Linux distributions
The goal of the community is to provide basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tools and documentation for developers to write stand-alone applications for the system.Season of KDE (SoK) is a program for people could not get accepted into Google Summer of Code. They will have a mentor from the KDE community to help them if any question arises or if they do not know how to continue.
3.) Anita Borg Scholarship-Only for girls sorry guys ! !
The scholarship is open to students at the Bachelors, Masters and PhD level who have at least one year of their program remaining. The scholarship value is around USD 1500–10000 and is competitively awarded based on essays and interviews. In addition, scholars and finalists usually have a retreat at a local Google office.
The program is run separately in several regions around the world, with local selection committees and retreats. Each program takes applications once per year, typically selecting one postgraduate and one undergraduate scholarship winner from among a group of 10–20 finalists.
4.) Contribute to open source
This is not an internship and neither will it pay you for the contributing to the project. However, it will give you amazing experience, provided you pick up an appropriate project. It not only proves that you are self-motivated to contribute to the open source and to take decisions by yourself but also proves that you have some exposure to real work.
So this is not an exhaustive list of all the internship opportunities or projects you can go for but this will give you good idea about other side projects which you can pursue very early in your career.
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