As a past Google Summer of Code participant, I think that its a good move by EFF and the Tor Project. IMHO, GSoc is one of the best ways to get started with Open source, while your still a student.
As far as I know, this particular initiative is solely sponsored by Tor, not by EFF (differently from historical Tor Project participation in GSoC, which did include EFF).
Congratulations to the Tor Project on offering this program!
>Point us to a code sample: something good and clean to demonstrate that you know what you're doing--ideally from an existing project.
Just another example of why I personally need to actually work on "side projects." I keep a tiny github repository of abandoned projects and partially working school assignments. The code that I get paid to write can't be public.
"I'll get to it next month" has been my mantra on this for far too long.
That is a very good idea! We (radare2) have a pretty good experience with our own Summer of Code, after we got rejected in 2014. This allows you to be even more flexible - to accept not only students, shift deadlines personally, etc. You can read about our successful previous year here [1]. Also this year we're starting our own RSoC again [2].
