Google Summer of Code opportunities for ham radio and SDR


I've started preparing some ideas for Google Summer of Code projects I'd be willing to help mentor this year and one of them is for ham radio, with a focus on software defined radio (SDR).

Can you help?

If you can help as a co-mentor or simply help refer students for this project please get in touch with me.

Ander the terms of the program students are paid a $US 5,500 stipend by Google and source code is fully published under a genuine free software license .

Details about the project and how students can apply

Students applying for this project are invited to submit two applications, one under the GNU Radio project and another under the Debian Project.

The aim of this project is to make ready-to-run solutions for ham radio enthusiasts.

The typical use case is a ham who has a spare computer in his shack, he should be able to boot the computer from DVD or USB stick using the Debian Ham Radio Live Blend or the GNU Radio Live SDR and have a functional transceiver within a few minutes.

A student may not be able to do everything required for this project in one summer. We are looking for a student who can make any incremental improvement to bring us closer to this goal.

Here are some of the tasks that may be involved:

Prerequisites

The following experience is highly desirable:

Mentor(s)

Application process

To apply