ESA Taking Applications for Summer of Code in Space

phyr writes: "ESA Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) is a program run by the European Space Agency. It aims at offering student developers stipends to write code for various space-related open source software projects. Through SOCIS, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Applicants must be attending a European or Canadian university and will receive 4000 Euros for supporting one of the accepted open source projects. Applicants have until May 15th to submit their proposals and resumes. I'm particularly interested to have exceptional proposals for the NEST project."

Wow

[K. S. Kyosuke]

I guess it's finally time to make that Real World page for the IN SPACE! [tvtropes.org] trope, right?

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[K. S. Kyosuke]

Protip: Earth is in space, too!

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[hypergreatthing]

No it's not.

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[fustakrakich]

Yeah? Then what's holding it up?

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[greenwow]

You're right about the ESA. They have changed from being a technical organization to a political one. They no longer have any interest in space. They only want to funnel money into the pockets of rich old white men. This "not in space" contest shows they have no actual interest in space.

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[j-b0y]

Since ESA depends on it's member states for it's funding and the funding is given on the basis of the political objectives of the states, ESA it by it's nature a political one and always has been. But that does not exclude being a technical one as well, which is it, and quite deeply.

The "rich old white men" are in fact the european space industry, which ESA supports and promotes as one of it's primary functions.

Your ignorance appears boundless.

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[Trapezium Artist]

Err, I think he was taking the mickey, surely. Or are these people really so dim?

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[oneiros27]

I get that you're complaining about the clarity of the post ... but your critique of it isn't very clear, either.

The problem is, they linked to SOCIS, and to the NEST SOCIS page ... rather than linking to something like the list of organizations that are willing to mentor, with links to descriptions of the [esa.int]
tasks they'd like people to propose to do

Very few of those pages include 'about this project' type information ... so instead the students join our IRC channel and start asking questions. You'd think this

Summer of Code in Space

[Spy Handler]

sounds as if they're holding this event in space, like on the ISS or a Bigelow orbiting tent or something.

I'm suing for false advertising.