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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. Nice idea, poor pay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Nice idea, poor pay by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

      People on scholarships. Do you have any idea how much weed you can buy for $4500?

    2. Re:Nice idea, poor pay by Jussi+K.+Kojootti · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Did you consider that the internet, and this program, are accessible also from outside of your country?

    3. Re:Nice idea, poor pay by iambarry · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Who says that many of those who participated in summer of code didn't also have summer CS ineternships?

      --Barry

  2. No VB? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They didn't accept my VB entry?!

  3. How about a winter of code? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That was sucessful. Lets follow it up with a winter of code, and give the OSS world a christmas present

  4. Good idea! by Mysticalfruit · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  5. So much publicity and all you win is... by TarrySingh · · Score: 4, Funny

    4500$!...geez!

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  6. Other Results: by Quaoar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Percentage of summer of code participants getting laid: 0%

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  7. Interesting Demographics by mikesmind · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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    1. Re:Interesting Demographics by university+chica · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I'm a senior in computer science at a university that has a total of 17000 students. I'm also the only female student in my graduating class. Conservatively, I'd say there are maybe 7 other female students in CS who've made it to their junior year. CS loses 99% of female students, and it's half way through the semester, so we may have lost a couple more. For a little perspective... there are over 100 guys in their junior or senior year. I don't understand it. I mean, who wouldn't want to spend their entire scholastic career surrounded by a collection of the geekiest men the university has to offer?

  8. Man look at the names by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's like a "Who's Who" list of who's not American.

  9. Hmmm, interesting projects by totallygeek · · Score: 5, Interesting
    • Ivan Barrera A, Chile: Bandwidth Limiter For Apache - When a user starts downloading something, the data goes through the mod. If there is a bandwidth limit, then the mod will start "splitting" the data into smaller pieces. Then it will start sending each piece with a small delay (less than 1 sec) between each piece, thus, reducing the speed the user downloads. This is useful for small web-hosting servers with limited outbound bandwidth (i.e. ADSLs customers).

      I don't even have that limited of bandwidth and I would like to see this mod in production. Very needed code IMHO.

    • csaba, Hungary - Fuse / BSD / Network mount via SSH

      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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    1. Re:Hmmm, interesting projects by harryk · · Score: 5, Informative

      Secure Shell file system mount has been available as a module for some time. ssh_fs.o I think, or something, but it works sufficiently enough.

      the project is here: http://shfs.sourceforge.net/

      enjoy...
      harryk

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  10. Other MozDev projects: by MTO_B. · · Score: 5, Informative

    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/

  11. Re:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by schon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can make more at McDonald's

    Wow, McDonalds is hiring coders?

    especially considering meals are discounted 75%.

    Yeah, but the downside is that it's McDonalds "food".

  12. Re:Some got paid considerably LESS than $9.30/hour by kebes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Math may not lie, but people can misrepresent what's going on.

    Google didn't pay these people anything. Rather, it provided grants/scholarships to people interested in working on open source code. People (coders and/or organizations) submitted proposals for ideas they wanted to work on, and Google selected some worthy ones that they would give extra money to, so as to encourage students to spend time doing some open-source coding.

    Google was not hiring these people to work on specific projects that get added to the portfolio of Google products. Everyone involved could have turned down the grant money if they had a better offer. But for these students, who would have likely worked on these (or other) open-source projects over the summer anyway (to bolster their CV and/or because it's fun), the grant was probably a welcome bonus.

    Everyone benefits from the open-source software that has been produced by these (partially funded) volunteers. Remember that the people working on these projects were contributing to open-source projects that are, by and large, non-commercial. That is, the summer-of-code people got $4500, whereas everyone else working on the project got $0. They are doing it because they want to. It is not a (traditional) job.

  13. T-Shirts? by The+Rizz · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Now we just have to wait for the T-shirts..."

    "I coded open-source software all summer, and all I got was $4500 and this lousy T-shirt" ??

  14. Re:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by Beatbyte · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How much would you sacrifice to get experience, build your reputation, and have Google on your resume?

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