Monday, March 19, 2007

Google Summer of Code - OpenMRS

Computer science students, need a summer job?
Have you ever imagined that writing code could save lives?
Why not apply to OpenMRS for the Google Summer of Code 2007?

* Help develop free, open source software
* Gain experience by working alongside experienced open source
developers
* Earn a summer-long stipend so that you can focus on your work
* Make a difference in the world by helping in the fight against
HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria...

This summer, students around the world have the opportunity to
participate in an exciting collaboration between OpenMRS
(http://openmrs.org) and Google, Inc. to further develop an open-source
medical record system that improves the care of patients with HIV/AIDS,
TB, and Malaria. The Google Summer of Code 2007 program provides
promising student software developers an opportunity to help these
vulnerable populations by spending their summer vacation writing new
code that will be used in countries throughout the developing world.

During this twelve week program, successful applicants will work
directly with assigned mentors to complete their choice of a variety of
focused development tasks laid out by the OpenMRS collaborative.
Interested? Visit http://soc2007.openmrs.org or
http://code.google.com/soc for more information. Applications are now
being accepted, the deadline for all submissions is March 24th, 2007.

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