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headers Evan Prodromou | 13 May 22:50

Hey, so, I'm looking for some college students to help out on a couple 
of Open Content projects (launching non-English versions of Vinismo and 
Keiki), and it got me thinking about a bigger kind of effort.

What if students could get a stipend to work on Open Knowledge or Open 
Content projects on their summer off? They wouldn't need to have 
technical or programming skills -- editorial, graphical, video and other 
skills would be more relevant. Language, marketing and organizing skills 
would come in useful, too -- for projects like the wikis I mention above.

It's waaaay too late to make this work for 2008, but it would be 
interesting to do for Summer 2009. It would probably be possible to get, 
say, $50K in donations and have 10 $5K stipends granted.

-Evan

Summer of Content 2009