Merge pull request #166 from gzm0/gsoc-14

Add newspost to announce GSoC

Author: heathermiller

news/_posts/2014-02-24-scala-team-approved-to-be-gsoc-mentor-organization.md

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+layout: news
+post-type: news
+title: "Google Summer of Code 2014"
+by: "Tobias Schlatter"
+author: "Tobias Schlatter"
+---
+
+**This year the Scala team applied again for
+[Google Summer of Code](http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014),
+and we're happy to announce that we have been approved to be mentoring organization!**
+
+### What is Google Summer of Code
+
+Google invites students to come up with interesting, non-trivial problems for
+their favourite open-source projects and work on them over the summer.
+Participants get support from the community, plus a mentor who makes sure they
+don't get lost and that students meet their goals. Aside from the satisfaction
+of solving challenging problems, students get paid for their work. This is an
+incredible opportunity to get involved in the Scala community and get helpful
+support along the way.
+
+### How to get involved
+
+First, have a look at our [project ideas page][gsoc2014]. The ideas there are
+meant as suggestions to serve as a starting point. We expect students to
+explore the ideas in much more detail, preferably with their own suggestions
+and detailed plans on how they want to proceed. But don't feel constrained by
+the provided list! We welcome any challenging project idea pertaining to
+Scala!
+
+The best place to propose and discuss your proposals is our
+["scala-language"](http://groups.google.com/group/scala-language) mailing list. This
+way you will get quickly responses from the whole Scala community. If you know
+of a potential mentor, it also might be a good idea to also include them in
+your discussion on the scala-language mailing list. If not, don't be afraid to
+ask who you might be able to contact in your discussion on scala-language.
+
+### Previous Summer of Code
+
+We encourage you to have a look at our [Summer of Code 2010][gsoc2010],
+[2011][gsoc2011], [2012][gsoc2012] and [2013][gsoc2013] pages to get an idea
+of kind of projects we undertook in previous years.
+
+Please join us!
+
+[gsoc2014]: http://www.scala-lang.org/gsoc/2014.html
+[gsoc2013]: http://www.scala-lang.org/news/2013/03/20/gsoc13.html
+[gsoc2012]: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/gsoc2012
+[gsoc2011]: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/gsoc2011
+[gsoc2010]: http://www.scala-lang.org/old/gsoc2010