"In space no one can hear you code"
The European Space Agency will start its 6th Summer of Code on 1 June. ESA will this week select students for 24 open source software projects. Over the past month, sixty students registered to participate in the ‘Summer of Code in Space’ programme.
Selected students will receive a EUR 4000 stipend.
ESA has slightly increased its budget for the programme, enabling it to add one more project to the list, says coordinator Maxime Perrotin.
Star students
This summer’s projects includes Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems (RTEMS), a real time operating system used in space flight, medical, networking and other embedded devices. The project is looking for students to help in various areas of the project, including testing, tool development and the RTEMS kernel.
A second SOCIS example is the Network Simulator NS-3. Here students are asked to help with developing Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN), used for deep-space communications, or they can work on modelling of orbiting satellite communication.
As in previous years, the KDE open source desktop environment project is also looking for students to help improve space-related software applications. Students can work on a virtual globe or help improve sky charts.
ESA has been organising its Summer of Code in Space projects since 2011. ESA hopes that SOCIS will help to raise awareness of open source projects related to space, and improve existing space-related open source solutions. The project should also help to raise the profile of ESA in the open source community.
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ESA’s ‘Summer of Code in Space’ programme
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