fosstodon.org is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Fosstodon is an invite only Mastodon instance that is open to those who are interested in technology; particularly free & open source software. If you wish to join, contact us for an invite.

Administered by:

Server stats:

10K
active users

#summerofcode

1 post1 participant0 posts today

🎉 The winter is coming to an end in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are getting geared up to participate in this year's Google's Summer of Code program (thanks as always to @INCF for taking us under their umbrella). If you are interested in contributing (either full- or part-time) to the Brian simulator over the summer – and getting paid for it –, this might be for you!

briansimulator.org/posts/2025/

#SummerOfCode #GSoC2025

A short thread with our 3 project proposals below 👇

The Brian spiking neural network simulator · GSoC 2025We are very happy that the INCF has been again selected to be a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code (“a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source softw

We are happy to announce that we are yet another time participating in Google's Summer of Code program (thanks to @INCF). If you are interested in contributing (either full- or part-time) to the Brian simulator over the summer – and getting paid for it –, this might be for you!

briansimulator.org/posts/2024/

#SummerOfCode #GSoC2024

A short thread with our project proposals below 👇

The Brian spiking neural network simulator · GSoC 2024We are very happy that the INCF has been again selected to be a mentor organization for the Google Summer of Code (“a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source softw

Read the final report from one of this year's #GSoC contributors for #SugarLabs, Mohit Gupta! In it, he details his work to implement full-screen and record features, improve how Music Blocks (v3) works on mobile and touchscreen devices, and fix a variety of very pesky bugs!

Read about his progress and how he found solutions to each problem: musicblocks.net/2023/10/04/mai #MusicBlocks #MusicPlusCode #FixingBugs #Learning #Fun #SummerOfCode

Music Blocks · Maintenance/bug fixes for Music Blocks 3 - Music Blocks Education %Maintenance/bug fixes for Music Blocks 3 - Google Summer of Code 2023 bug fixes and new features. This blog post details work done this summer.

Thanks to this year's #Google #SummerOfCode (#GSoC), a student developer took the initiative in working on an automated #Gentoo #Linux system updater to help begineers and ease the roll-out of security updates to users. The default behavior with gentoo_update is to only deploy security updates from the Gentoo Linux Security Advisories (GLSA) by default. Alternatively the #gentoo_update utility can also keep all system packages up-to-date. phoronix.com/news/Automated-Ge better than cron'ing emerge!

#TIL, courtesy of a #FOSSAsia session on OpenEuler, that the Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences runs a summer of code style project that...

"... aims to encourage college students to actively participate in the maintenance and development of open source software, promote the vigorous development of open source software communities, and build the open source software supply chain together."

summer-ospp.ac.cn/

summer-ospp.ac.cn开源软件供应链点亮计划-开源之夏2023OSPP2023 搭建开源社区和高校开发者的桥梁,培养和发掘更多优秀的开发者,共筑开源软件可靠供应链。