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Get paid $3000+ by Google to Work on Borg-related Open Source Projects!
raindog308
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Every year Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) program pays thousands of new contributors to help improve selected projects. Originally oriented towards CS students, a couple years ago, Google changed the terms so anyone over 18 can contribute.
BorgBase is a provider of managed backup storage was always a big open source contributor. If you open a thread on LowEndTalk asking what backup system people use, a lot of the responses will include BorgBase. They directly support Borg, Borgmatic, and maintain Vorta, a popular desktop GUI.
This year all those projects have joined forces to participate in GSoC and work on new features and improvements!
If you didn’t formally contribute to open source before, you will learn valuable technical and community skills, as well as see your work used by tens of thousands of users. This also looks good on a résumé or curriculum vitae (CV). Or you can just casually drop a mention of it in your next job interview.
While not everyone can be accepted, BorgBase will be providing a free Medium Backup Plan ($80 value) to anyone making substantial contributions that are merged into one of the participating projects. Cool!
@m4nu is available to answer all your questions. For possible projects, tasks and how to apply see the official ideas page or ask your questions on IRC. We also interviewed @m4nu on LEB recently.
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Hey all! Thanks to @raindog308 for adding this here. I know many people here are pretty technical, but maybe not involved in open source yet. If that's you, this program is a good chance and I'm hoping to reach many great contributors!
Borg you say. Hmmmm