this summer will purely be a summer of code! We are not only offering you Google Summer of Code (GSOC 2019, still open until April 9th), but also the European Space Agency’s Summer of Code in Space 2019 (ESA SOCIS).
Now it is up to you to decide if you want to code open-source space with us during ESA Summer of Code in space 2019? You should!
Be our Summer Student and code your open-source space projects. You get stipends of up to 4000€. The Call for ESA SOCIS 2019 is now open!
Together, we as AerospaceResearch.net, Ksat-Stuttgart (University of Stuttgart) and EP2Lab (Carlos III University of Madrid) are proud to be selected as official mentoring organizations for the ESA Summer of Code in Space 2019.
And we are now looking for students to spend their summers coding on great open-source space software, getting paid by ESA, releasing scientific papers about their projects and supporting the open-source space community by useful programmes.
Are you a student? You have time until May 4, 2019, to apply for various coding ideas to work on, and be part of out team!
More information and registration here.
ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) is a program run by the European Space Agency that focuses on bringing student developers into open source software development for space applications. Students work with a mentoring organization on a 3 month programming project during their summer break.
Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating organizations and with experts from ESA (where available), thus gaining exposure to open source software development and insights from ESA. In turn, the participating organizations are able to prototype new open source projects and possibly bring in new developers to work on relevant topics for space.
SOCIS is inspired by (but not affiliated or related in any way to) Google’s Summer of Code initiative, and is designed with the following objectives in mind:
- raise the awareness of open source projects related to space, especially among students;
- raise awareness of ESA within the open source community;
- improve existing space-related open source software.
For further information, please chat with us on https://aerospaceresearch.zulipchat.com