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Google Summer of Code Results

Posted by Zonk on from the impressive-most-impressive dept.

Nattfodd writes "Almost two months after the projects, deadline, partial (but fairly complete) results of Google Summer of Code are here. The completion rate of projects (and thus payment of the students) was approximately 90%, which would certainly qualify for a 'huge success' of the operation. Summer of Code paid more than 400 students of 49 countries to spend their summer helping open-source projects, 4500$ on completion. Now we just have to wait for the T-shirts..."

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  1. Re:Nice idea, poor pay by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I thought $160 was too much to be paying for an ounce...

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  2. Re:Nice idea, poor pay by king-manic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I thought $160 was too much to be paying for an ounce...

    Quality BC weed costs about $40 for 1/8 ounce here in Alberta. Discounts for larger volume available.

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  3. George? by Chickenofbristol55 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This time shall be known as the summer of George!

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  4. Re:Nice idea, poor pay by Victor+Antolini · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, no, because it isn't shitty for me and the rest. Many people from the USA that came here on vacation (i can easily count 20) were delighted with it's quality. You just need to know where to get it. Compared with many samples from the US, i'd stick with our's :P.