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..."

Comments

No VB?

[Anonymous Coward]

They didn't accept my VB entry?!

Re:Nice idea, poor pay

[eln]

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

Other Results:

[Quaoar]

Percentage of summer of code participants getting laid: 0%

Interesting Demographics

[mikesmind]

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.

Re:Interesting Demographics

[university chica]

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?

Hmmm, interesting projects

[totallygeek]

• 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.

Re:Hmmm, interesting projects

[harryk]

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

Other MozDev projects:

[MTO_B.]

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/

Re:Some got paid considerably LESS than $9.30/hour

[kebes]

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.