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Google Summer of Code Results
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..."
Its a nice thing for Google to try to do, but who were they really targeting at that pay range? A decent summer internship in CS pays 2-4 times that much.
How are these programmers immortalized? I mean, beyond placing that on a resume. Does Google use this as a sort of co-op system for hiring future talent?
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They didn't accept my VB entry?!
That was sucessful. Lets follow it up with a winter of code, and give the OSS world a christmas present
Is 400 bigger than a Google?
Meta will eat itself
$4500. No problem.
Note to self: get smarter troll to guard door.
Get the next iteration of programmers comfortable with their tools and API's.
I'm suspecting the future is going to smell like AJAX...
Also, while barely literate, I'm pretty sure that dollar sign goes before the ammount...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
4500$!...geez!
Scott McNealy to Michael: "Suck my Sun!" Michael Dell to Scott : "Lick my Dell!"
Percentage of summer of code participants getting laid: 0%
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
I scanned through the list and am intrigued by the demographics. I was surprised that there weren't a few more women. I always knew that programming was dominated by men, but I didn't realize it would be that far skewed. The shop I work in is primarily COBOL and we have a good percentage of women working here. Perhaps that skewed my perception.
www.mikesmind.com - www.daddyworkathome.com - www.freetofarm.org - www.tenfoottable.com
Jesus, this site is getting worse and worse.
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This was posted on 9/11...
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/
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Thanks Google for making source forge even messier than it already is.
Anyone who encourages staying inside coding on a sunny day is a pawn of Satan himself.
That's right - I said it - SATAN!
It's like a "Who's Who" list of who's not American.
$4500 for a summer of work ->
Summer = 12 weeks
1 work week = 40 hours
Total = 480 hours per summer
BEFORE taxes, this is $9.30 / hour.
I can make more at McDonald's especially considering meals are discounted 75%.
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I don't even have that limited of bandwidth and I would like to see this mod in production. Very needed code IMHO.
This is what I have been waiting for since the dawn of time. Well, not that long, but I have always wondered when I would be able to mount remote file systems via secure shell.
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The list of projects says "Please note that this page contains a sampling and not a complete listing of the projects done as part of the Summer of Code."
The MozDev (related to Mozilla / Firefox) projects missing from the list are:
- Cockatoo: SIP phone extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
http://cockatoo.mozdev.org/
- Firepuddle: BitTorrent P2P for Mozilla
http://firepuddle.mozdev.org/
- Event Loger (An advanced macro and testcase creation tool for Firefox)
http://eventlogger.mozdev.org/
- Muzzled: graphical theme builder for mozilla
http://muzzled.mozdev.org/
- Vietnamese translation of Firefox
http://vi.mozdev.org/
Suggestions:
- Google Talk voice support for Linux;
- Google Earth for Linux;
- Google office suite for Linux, er, for web;
- Google Desktop for Linux;
Well, actually, this could be hard... differences among Linux versions, among desktop environments, yada, yada, yada...
So, first: what about a common installation utility to (humbly and initially) work only in Gnome, KDE and XFCE -- with specific plug-ins in each environment to carry out the lowly details?
DISCLAIMER: my personal opinions, not my employer's.
Hmmm it's been snowing all day better post a dupe article about Google's Coding Summer being over just in case we forgot!
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It looked like a dupe to me too, and both posted by Zonk even.
But, the first posting was about the end of the "Summer of Code". This posting was a link to Google and the results of the program.
That's how averages work.
Some put in more time.
Some put in less time.
Mathematics does not lie, however.
The average Google Summer of Code participant got scant more than minimum wage for their participation.
People complain about the Walmarts of the world but I guess here on Slashdot, Google can do no wrong, so $9/hr with no benefits for high-end tech work is fine and dandy.
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At college most of the women went into chemical engineering, or varients (geological, biological, and there was one other which I can't remember). I don't know why more women don't care to program, but low stats for women doesn't surprise me a bit.
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, which is why engineers sometimes smell really bad.
Wow, McDonalds is hiring coders?
The point here is that software programming is more complex than flipping burgers. The pay should not be remotely close. Google is a billion dollar company. It is an insult that they even throw a paltry couple thousand at these guys who are doing real, complex engineering of software.
Yeah, but the downside is that it's McDonalds "food".
Close your DailyKos feed and stop going to your hippie documentary film class. Yes, a man ate a ton of food at McDonald's for a month and gained weight. Surprise surprise. I could do the same with any "heart-healthy" food you find at a food story. Guess what? Many have since LOST a ton of food by eating nothing but McDonald's food.
And yes, it is real food, at least as much as any of the 96% of items at a grocery store that are all pre-packaged, high in sodium, high in fat, and deficient in overall quality.
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"I coded open-source software all summer, and all I got was $4500 and this lousy T-shirt" ??
On the off chance that you're not a troll, I'll respond here.
The point here is that software programming is more complex than flipping burgers.
No, the point is that flipping burgers for a fast-food chain is in no way comparable to being paid to do something you would already be doing, rather than having to give up that thing you love to go work in a fast-food joint.
It is an insult that they even throw a paltry couple thousand at these guys who are doing real, complex engineering of software.
So, rather than "insulting" them, Google should have done nothing, and let the programmers languish?
Isn't that chip on your shoulder getting a little heavy for you?
This time shall be known as the summer of George!
public class null extends java applet { System.out.print ("Tabula Rasa"); }
So I noticed mod_smtpd in there.
Is there some corollary to the well known quote like "Every daemon attempts to expand until it can schlep mail" that I'm not aware of?
here's one of numerous slashdot articles about google mentioning it >>
Other interesting things include a Linux port of Google Earth
The idea is good. The pay is about right. I had a chance to take a look at one of the "finished" projects. About 20K of PHP code which looks like written in last two weeks before the deadline with a lot of copy-paste from other sources.
I guess the idea was not to get a lot of good code but to make more students involved in coding and Open Source. I guess this goal is achieved. I would consider the program as an investment in public education and a good PR.
The Google Summer of Code fitted in with northern hemisphere student
r chterm=bounty
timetables.. what about Southern Hemisphere students?
- South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Brazil, New Zealand,
and Brazil (no particular order, and by no means exclusive) are some of the
countries that would have students that could participate.
Maybe Canonical/Ubuntu could run a Southern Hemisphere Summer of Code?
or, in the spirit of open source and open markets, southern hemisphere students
can hook into Ubuntu's bounty program.
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/bounties/view?sea
A 'do it yourself' summer of code... anyone want to sponsor the T-shirts?
I knew about this, but I posted it anyway as a wish...
a. for completeness and
b. You know, sometimes you're short in arguments... it was a kind of marketing thing... *blushes*
Thanks for bringing this up. It gave me a chance to apologize to Google...
Yeah, things tend to be skewed that way. In my high school programming experience, I was always one of the few girls, although at the competitions we attended, girls were always equitably represented among the winners, it seemed. Through the three years I participated, there were three, then five, then six girls at competitions with about 70ish participants. My programming teacher in high school once asked me what it was like to be the only girl in the class. It's difficult, especially when you're around insecure teenage boys who can't deal with the fact that a girl could own them at programming. Although I eventually gained their respect (it only took, oh, two years), the task was lonely and difficult.
As for the ratio of men to women in CS at my university, I can't specifically comment, as I'm a freshman ChemE now (51% female here, interestingly), but I know that electrical and computer engineering is 11% female. (Oh, the facts one must know to be a tour guide...)
As for Google specifically, just tonight I attended a Google information session at my university, and the proportions of men to women were about the same as those aforementioned programming competitions. It wasn't very surprising, because I guess I've just gotten used to it.
Ok, wow. Did this "Summer of Code" take place over in India?
Aside from the two "Thomas" fellas, the rest were all foreigners.
At least as far as I understand it, the $4500 aren't wages. The participants weren't on Google's payroll, and if you didn't finish, you didn't get anything.
The guy at my work who participated (and finished) still got his regular wages from our employer, as far as I know.
Having worked for the largest commercial software writer in my sector for a decade, writing a chuck of code to the point where is all compiles and runs is only 1/3 of the work at best. Refining to team and customer sasitifaction, removing bugs. support and marketing can easily be 60-80% of the work. Especially if you work in teams with people of different specialties.
I love Blender. Gotta get ready for the '06 summer of love..er..code..
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