[OKFN-Greece] DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

[Charalampos Bratsas]

Google Summer of Code <http://code.google.com/soc/>(GSoC) is a global 
program that offers post-secondary student developers (ages 18 and 
older, BSc, MSc, PhD)  stipends to write code for various open source 
software projects. Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought 
together over 6,000 successful student participants and over 3,000 
mentors from over 100 countries worldwide, all for the love of code.

DBpediaparticipated successfully in last’s year GSoC 
<http://pablomendes.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/dbpedia-spotlights-first-participation-on-the-google-summer-of-code/>asDBpedia 
Spotlight. We were allowed with 4 students (out of a total 37 
applications) and managed to enhance DBpedia Spotlight in time 
performance, accuracy and extra functionality.  We are thrilled to 
announce, that we were accepted again in GSoC 2013. We are participating 
with all DBpedia-family products this time - that isDBpedia 
<http://wiki.dbpedia.org/About>,DBpedia Spotlight 
<https://github.com/dbpedia-spotlight/dbpedia-spotlight/wiki>andDBpedia 
Wiktionary <http://dbpedia.org/Wiktionary>- and we hope we share the 
same luck, again.

This year we have brand new and exciting ideas 
<http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2013/ideas>so, if you know energetic 
students (BSc, MSc, PhD) interested in working with DBpedia, text 
processing, and semantics, please encourage them to apply!

If you are a student, the application period starts in 2 weeks (deadline 
May 3rd). Judging from last year’s competition, writing a good 
application can be a really hard task so you should start preparing from 
now. We already created a dedicatedmailing list 
<https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-gsoc>and a few 
warm-up tasks <http://wiki.dbpedia.org/gsoc2013/ideas?v=5o3#h254-3>( to 
get you familiar with our technologies) and we will of course be always 
available to any questions.

So go ahead, choose your idea,write your application 
<http://wiki.dbpedia.org/spotlight/gsoc2012/apply>and impress us;)

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/dbpediaspotlight

<http://wiki.dbpedia.org/spotlight/gsoc2012/ideas/>

On behalf of the DBpedia GSoC team,


Charalampos Bratsas

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Dr Charalampos Bratsas
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email: charalampos.bratsas at okfn.org
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