<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,<div><br></div><div>Last year we have created the BEAM Community organization meant to host different projects that run on the Erlang VM. We had 6 students working on different projects during the summer, like Elixir, Disco, Mongoose IM and others.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>The Google Summer of Code 2014 has just announced they are looking for organizations to participate in this year edition. Historically, Google has given higher preference for umbrella organizations and therefore we will participate this year again!</div>
<div><br></div><div>The BEAM Community website for 2014 is online: <a href="http://beamcommunity.github.io/" target="_blank">http://beamcommunity.github.io/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The first step is to gather a set of projects that are interested in taking part of the BEAM Community. So if you run a project in the Erlang VM and you are interested in mentoring a student during the summer, please send me an e-mail! At this stage, all we need is the project name and a list of ideas / proposals for students to work on. <a href="https://github.com/beamcommunity/beamcommunity.github.com/blob/master/2013/Home.md">You can use the ideas from last year as inspiration / template</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We are planning to host 6 projects, the same amount as last year and the deadline for joining us / putting up your list of ideas is 11th February. Google's deadline is 14th february but we need some time to put everything together. The <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2014">full program timetable can be found online too</a>!</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.</div><div>You may also ask projects that took part last year if you are interested on how the program works.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm looking forward to another great summer!</div>
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