Help getting an internship..

[satyamM]

Hey,

I am a engineering student(21M) and a permanent user of Ubuntu. As I am getting to know more of Ubuntu day-by day, I am growing to be its huge fan.

I wanted to know about some Ubuntu projects(or Unix projects) which college students can do on themselves, and attain some knowledge of that.

An expert advice required here.

Thanks you.

[Lars Noodén]

The most widely known one is the Google Summer of Code:
http://code.google.com/soc/

It will soon be time to think about getting ready for 2013.

[satyamM]

Hello Everyone,

I am a engineering student, first time introduced to Ubuntu at my college, 2 years back, and in just few introductions I became a fan of it, removed Windows from my Dell PC and installed Ubuntu.

Installing Ubuntu was few months back and now I am running 12.04 in my system and I am proud and happy of it. :)


Now, I want to 'do something' in this, means I want to do few projects kinda thing in Ubuntu, so that I can start working in its programming and develop something of myself and later show my friends whatever I develop so that they get inspired and switch to Ubuntu. I am NOT at all interested to make my friends switch to Ubuntu, but for my learning purposes too, that constitute major part of course.


So has anyone got any ideas regarding a project work in Ubuntu. I don't want a big one which takes several months, just one which can be done in a month or two..just that!!!

I am asking this all here because next year I want to apply for prestigious "Google Summer of Code 2013" ,so better if I start working now and certainly this is the time to start.

Please experts , give your thoughts and provide some light on my whatever I asked.

Thank you.

[hakermania]

What are you interested in developing? Fancy and easy-to-make-yet-have-to-worry-about-user-friendliness applications (see signature) or hard-to-understand-yet-powerful applications (see rrdtool)?

In order to persuade someone to switch to Ubuntu via showing him your programming work (not so sure how these 2 relate, though), I would go with the former :)

[Elfy]

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[mips]

What type of engineering are you studying and what type of project would you like to do?

[satyamM]

I am studying Computer Science and Engineering course, a 4 year course.
I would like to do something which relates with coding, or may be developing something new in Ubuntu or may be something which is related to system programming.

I just want some ideas to get a initiation to start doing some work. Since I am new, thus need some ideas how things can be worked out in Ubuntu, I have came across to know only a few things.