In what is a first for a New Zealand company, Wellington based SilverStripe has joined Google’s prestigious Summer of Code programme, under which university students are paid to work on open-source projects as a summer job.
Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be working with a several open source, free software and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Historically, the program has brought together over 1,000 students with over 100 open source projects, to create hundreds of thousands of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its third year, following on from a very successful 2006.
SilverStripe is well known for its open-source content management system for websites that is used by about 100 businesses and government agencies, such as the City Gallery Wellington. The SilverStripe CMS is a PHP5/MySQL-based product that is both a content management system (ala Joomla!, Drupal etc) combined with a rich extendable framework for building websites and web-applications (ala Ruby On Rails, CakePHP).
Silverstripe claim there are a number of reasons they released the SilverStripe platform open source. Not only does it allow them to give something valuable back after years of using open source products themselves, they feel they’re evolving the web community with a genuinely innovative product. Finally, they are so convinced SilverStripe will work best when it is widely adopted that they BSD licensed it. SilverStripe are committed to furthering open source and open standards.
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Cheers for the plug. We got over 30 Google student applications and I’m wading through them all, ripping my hair out trying to work out who the best ones are!