<div dir="ltr">Call for Google Summer of Code 2017! Student stipends of up to 6600 USD for open-source space coding (please Forward)<br>######################<br><br>Again
for the third time, AerospaceResearch.net[0] is proud to be selected as
an official mentoring organization for the Summer of Code 2017 (GSOC)
program run by Google[1].<br>And we are now looking for students to
spend their summers coding on great open-source space software, getting
paid up to 6600 USD by Google, releasing scientific papers about their
projects and supporting the open-source space community.<br><br>Until 3.
April 2017, students can apply for an hands on experience with applied
space programs. As an umbrella organisation, AerospaceResearch.net and
KSat-Stuttgart e.V. are offering you various coding ideas[2] to work on:<br><br>* The Distributed Ground Station Network - global tracking and communication with small-satellites[2][4]<br>* KSat-Stuttgart - the small satellite society at the Institute of Space Systems / University of Stuttgart[2]<br>* or your very own proposal![2]<br><br>If
you are a student, take your giant leap into the space community,
realzing your very own space software, and the chance to be recognized
by Google headhunter.<br>If you are professor, feel free to propose this
great opportunity to your students or even have your projects being
coded and realized!<br><br>During the last years, we mentored more than
21 students during Summer of Code campaigns[6] and now, we achieved
several great things together. We have released several papers. We spent
computing power worth 60,000 PCs to those students projects, even
helping their bachelor theses, and indirectly supporting the IMEX
program[5] by the European Space Agency(ESA). And as a surprise and an
honor for us, we had been on plenary stage with Canadian astronaut Chris
Hadfield to promote those projects during the International
Astronautical Congress 2014 in Toronto.<br><br>We want to repeat that success, and now it's your turn to be active in open-source space!<br><br>Apply today, find all projects on the GSOC webpage![1]<br>We are waiting for you,<br><br>Andreas Hornig, Head of Platform<br><br>[0] <a href="http://aerospaceresearch.net/?page_id=202">http://aerospaceresearch.net/?page_id=202</a><br>[1] <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com">https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com</a><br>[2] <a href="http://aerospaceresearch.net/?page_id=202#codingideas">http://aerospaceresearch.net/?page_id=202#codingideas</a><br>[3] <a href="http://ksat-stuttgart.de">http://ksat-stuttgart.de</a><br>[4] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC4Ls3AGHf4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC4Ls3AGHf4</a><br>[5] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY0vjbBp4eg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY0vjbBp4eg</a><br>[6] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkklxZxjT-8&list=PL-lXf3kTWgqybFL-VOmVxKyjnrVPE7DBB">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkklxZxjT-8&list=PL-lXf3kTWgqybFL-VOmVxKyjnrVPE7DBB</a><br><br>Feel free to forward this email to whomever you think it may concern!<br><br>### More Information ###<br><br># About Google Summer of Code (GSOC)[1]:<br>Google
Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to
open source software development. Students work on a 3 month programming
project with an open source organization during their break from
university.<br><br>Since its inception in 2005, the program has brought
together 12,000+ student participants and 11,000 mentors from over 127
countries worldwide. Google Summer of Code has produced 30,000,000+
lines of code for 568 open source organizations.<br><br>As a part of
Google Summer of Code, student participants are paired with a mentor
from the participating organizations, gaining exposure to real-world
software development and techniques. Students have the opportunity to
spend the break between their school semesters earning a stipend while
working in areas related to their interests.<br><br>In turn, the
participating organizations are able to identify and bring in new
developers who implement new features and hopefully continue to
contribute to open source even after the program is over. Most
importantly, more code is created and released for the use and benefit
of all.<br><br># About AerospaceResearch.net[0]:<br>We are a DGLR young
academics group at the University of Stuttgart for aerospace related
simulations applying distributed computing. Our global citizen
scientists community of 15,000 users are donating their idle computing
time of 60,000 computers and forming a virtual super computer connected
via the Internet. And this massive network is used for solving difficult
space numerics or for sensor applications. We are bringing space down
to Earth and supporting the space community from students to
organizations.<br><br># Distributed Ground Station Network [DGSN]:<br>The
Distributed Ground Station Network is a system for tracking and
communication with small satellites and other aerial vehicles. The
concept includes a global network of small and cheap ground stations
that track beacon signals sent by the satellite, plane or balloon. The
ground stations are located at ordinary people at home, so called
citizen scientists, and are connected via the Internet. A broadcasted
beacon signal is received by at least 5 stations and can be used then
for trilateration to obtain the position of the signal's origin. For
this each ground station correlates the received signal with the precise
reception time, which is globally provided and synchronized by GPS.
This shall help small satellite provider and even Google's Loon project
to be able to track their vehicles fast, globally and simple!<br></div>