Well maybe that's because I've never even heard of the Summer of Code until right now, and I would've applied had the deadline not already passed.
I wish they accepted late application, I would love to do open-source work!
Yeah, I feel like there's no way they'll accept a late application a month and half late. Rough. Do you think there were any drop-outs that left an open spot? I think I could catch up to speed with the rest of the students quickly, they haven't really done actual work yet.
They probably also have better internships (paying aside). I've been 4 times in GSoC and what I can tell you is that as far as I'm concerned this is the most interesting thing I can do over the summer.
An internship here involves at best, some random module in some offshore product, at worst a "hello world" type project in $insert_whatever_technology_the_company_happens_to_use.
I love hacking on FLOSS and I'm not that interested in how much I'm payed (as long as it's decent), but there's no way I could find a job where I could work on FLOSS on a 400miles radius. I guess this explains why so many eastern europeans and indians.
I might be wrong but my feeling is that here in the EU there are few to none hacker-friendly jobs.
