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Google's Summer of Code Over

Posted by Zonk on from the put-down-your-pencils dept.

yootje writes "The Summer of Code ('Google's program designed to introduce students to the world of open source software development.') is now over. The result: 410 participants helping 38 projects suchs as Apache, KDE and FreeBSD. 'Among the project awards are both complex and simple innovations spanning the width and breadth of everything that the open source world has to offer. There are projects dealing with security, networking, VoIP, Java, mono, IP-PBX, online picture galleries, instant messaging and content management. There is even a game that Google's summer internship helped to pay for.'" Update: 09/11 17:15 GMT by Z : Added the story link at submittor's request.

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  1. Summer's over? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean the Summer of Code doesn't last forever?! It went by so fast...

    1. Re:Summer's over? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      You mean the Summer of Code doesn't last forever?! It went by so fast...
      Is "Summer of Code" supposed to be like the "Summer of Love" back in the 60's? For most geeks that would last less than 30 seconds.
    2. Re:Summer's over? by Gothic_Walrus · · Score: 5, Funny
      I got my first compiler
      Got it from the Google guys
      Tried to give Gaim file transfers
      It was the summer of two-oh-five

      Me and some guys from school
      Worked all night we tried real hard
      Jimmy quit and we never finished coding
      I shoulda known we'd never get far

      Oh when I look back now
      That summer seemed to last forever
      And if I had the choice
      Ya - I'd always wanna be there
      Those were the best days of my life...

      --
      Goo goo g'joob.
  2. Dang. by Mikhailov · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish I could have went, maybe they'll hold it this summer before I take the Visual Basic and A+ certification classes.

    1. Re:Dang. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      You have to be a student of an accredited school to do this.

  3. Google sucks by gabecubbage · · Score: 5, Funny

    They rejected my application to write a search engine driven by sites linking in. It could've been huge!

  4. Rejects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was a reject. So while I was going to code through the summer anyway I decided to go on vacation to protest. WTF? Didn't like my project? Well, I *don't* have to do it then. Eventually I went free camping (many nudists, drinking and smoking joints) and got a new girlfriend. Ahh. Now its September. Well, back to work fellas!

  5. Summer? How can it be summer? by ShakiirNvar · · Score: 2, Funny


    Its only just turned spring here!

    --
    "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." - HL Mencken
  6. Re:Summer was over in 4 weeks... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You think that's bad. Try applying for a job at Google. You get the same email.

  7. Game? by Pixelmixer · · Score: 2, Funny

    What is the game they worked on? File searching, while being attacked by ravaging zombies that you have to search for their weakness by probing them with a google scanner. Then you attack them by searching for a weapon with your google auto-materializer that will materialize any weapon you can find in the google search database... how cool?!?

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    "What happend to just paying for a product without being constantly nibbled to death by Credit Card Ducks?"