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Google Summer of Code 2011

[Posted January 25, 2011 by ris]

Google Summer of Code 2011 was announced at linux.conf.au. "This will be the 7th year for Google Summer of Code, an innovative program dedicated to introducing students from colleges and universities around the world to open source software development. The program offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects with the help of mentoring organizations from all around the globe. Over the past 6 years Google Summer of Code has had 4,500 students from over 85 countries complete the program. We are excited to announce that we will extend the scope of the program this year by targeting a 25% increase in accepted student applications as well as accepting a larger number of mentoring organizations. Our goal is to help these students pursue academic challenges over the summer break while they create and release open source code for the benefit of all."

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Posted Jan 25, 2011 23:33 UTC (Tue) by fyodor (guest, #3481) [Link]

I'm delighted to read this, as the Summer of Code program has been a huge success for the Nmap Project. We have participated in all of the previous six summers, and it has brought numerous talented developers into the fold (examples). I recommend this program to any serious open source project, and I commend Google for putting millions of dollars into the open source ecosystem this way.

I do kind of wish Google would increased the stipends by 25% rather than increasing the number of funded slots. In many expensive parts of the world, it can be hard to live for 3 months on $5,000. And that is only a fraction of what talented programmers can make in many corporate internship programs.