<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>MITH is pleased to announce that Google has selected us as one of a hundred seventy seven mentoring organizations to participate in the <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013">2013 Google Summer of Code</a> (GSoC). </div>
<div><br></div><div>Google is offering students a stipend to work with MITH and other organizations on open source projects, giving students an opportunity to see software development and open source culture outside the classroom.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div style>If you are, or know, a student interested in programming and literature, music, or some other aspect of the humanities and libraries, check out <a href="http://mith.umd.edu/gsoc2013/">our page of ideas</a> and <a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/umd_mith">our GSoC homepage</a>.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><b>We welcome applications for work related to MEI tool development. One of our ideas suggests to work on improving an existing MEI to VexFlow library, but other proposals are more than welcome.</b></div>
<div style><br></div><div style>In the following two weeks, we invite interested students to get in touch with mentors to discuss their project ideas. The actual application period will be between April 22nd and May 3rd.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Please feel free to get in touch for further information and please spread the word to anyone you think might be interested.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Best wishes,</div><div style>
Raffaele</div></div>