Google Summer of Code with RaRe Technologies
this year, RaRe Technologies is a mentoring organisation for the Google Summer of Code 2016:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/manual#student_manual
If you have students interested in honing their professional skills over the summer, improving the world via open source, and earning 5,000 USD at the same time, please inform them of this opportunity through your internal communication channels.
We accept project proposals in machine learning + Python; for inspiration, they can have a look at our usual list here:
https://github.com/piskvorky/gensim/wiki/Student-Projects
The proposal deadline is 25 March 2016.