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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:white">All,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.75pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#212121">I'm happy to announce ROS-Industrial will be participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) (<a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/"><span style="color:#7E57C2">https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/</span></a> )
 under the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) umbrella.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.75pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#212121">GSoC is a great way for students to participate in open source projects and get paid.  It's also a great way for an open source
 project to get some work done and grow their communities.  ROS-Industrial has had several successful GSoC projects in the past and many of the students continue on as members of our community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.75pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#212121">If you are an interested student, or know of one, please check out our idea page: (<a href="http://wiki.osrfoundation.org/gsoc16"><span style="color:#7E57C2">http://wiki.osrfoundation.org/gsoc16</span></a> )
 .  Students have until 3/25 to submit proposals against these ideas to GSoC.  More details on the timeline can be found here: <a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline"><span style="color:#7E57C2">https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline</span></a> .
  I would encourage students who want to propose to reach out (<a href="mailto:swri-ros-pkg-dev@googlegroups.com"><span style="color:#7E57C2">swri-ros-pkg-dev@googlegroups.com</span></a> )with any questions or ideas they might have about suggested projects.
  For GSoC rules, check out:  <a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/rules"><span style="color:#7E57C2">https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/rules</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Shaun Edwards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Senior Research Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Manufacturing System Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://robotics.swri.org"><span style="color:blue">http://robotics.swri.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://rosindustrial.swri.org/"><span style="color:blue">http://rosindustrial.swri.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://ros.swri.org/"><span style="color:blue">http://ros.swri.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://groups.google.com/group/swri-ros-pkg-dev/boxsubscribe"><span style="color:blue">Join the ROS-Industrial Developers List</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Southwest Research Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">210-522-3277<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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