Bored (or Broke) on the Holidays? Develop a Funambol GNOME Evolution Plugin
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Stefano Maffulli, the community manager at Funambol's repository/forge portal recently announced the latest Code Sniper challenge.
The Code Sniper Program offers bounties (yes, real bounties, in the form of cash awards) for "client and connector" code submitted by community members. The chosen application and code is opened and given back to the community. There are a number of projects on the "hit list," and the latest target was named yesterday.
The mission, should you choose to accept it: Develop a GUI-plugin, based on SyncEvolution to easily, visually sync Evolution to the Funambol SyncML servers. Submissions must follow the Code Sniper Program's guidelines, and of course, you don't have to go it totally alone -- the Code Sniper team encourages participants to check out GNOME's eplugin development how-to. The bounty on this project is $750.
There are a number of other "bounty" projects in various stages of completion (with varying amounts of money on their heads). If Evolution development isn't your inspiration, perhaps developing applications for use with Lotus Notes, Skype, and LinkedIn are more enticing.
The idea, of course, is that programmer involvement doesn't end with the completed project. Projects are ideally maintained, and experienced Code Snipers can even serve as mentors to new recruits.
The "code sniper" method is interesting approach to getting developers (new or experienced) involved in a larger effort, and it seems to be working for Funambol Forge, judging from the number of completed and in-progress projects they've listed.
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