Tor Project Launches Summer of Privacy

As a past Google Summer of Code participant, I think that its a good move by EFF and the Tor Project. IMHO, GSoc is one of the best ways to get started with Open source, while your still a student.

>Point us to a code sample: something good and clean to demonstrate that you know what you're doing--ideally from an existing project.

Just another example of why I personally need to actually work on "side projects." I keep a tiny github repository of abandoned projects and partially working school assignments. The code that I get paid to write can't be public.

"I'll get to it next month" has been my mantra on this for far too long.

That is a very good idea! We (radare2) have a pretty good experience with our own Summer of Code, after we got rejected in 2014. This allows you to be even more flexible - to accept not only students, shift deadlines personally, etc. You can read about our successful previous year here [1]. Also this year we're starting our own RSoC again [2].

[1] http://radare.today/the-rsoc-is-over/

[2] http://rada.re/r/rsoc.html

silly question. any idea why people holding a passport from certain countries like Iran, Sudan, DPRK etc are excluded?

Sponsored by the NSA?