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Google Announces Summer of Code 2008

Posted by kdawson on from the endless-sunshine dept.

morrison writes "The 2008 Google Summer of Code is on. We have discussed this four-year-old tradition before (2005, 2006, 2007). Google will once again be hosting a program that gives computer science students a $4,500 stipend to work on open source software projects. Last year, Google funded over 900 students' projects in more than 90 countries. As noted in the program FAQ, this year they hope to do even more. The #gsoc IRC channel on Freenode is already buzzing with activity."

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  1. Re:Kids have it lucky these days by redalien · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually, Google Highly Open Participation contest produced some excellent pieces of code that were all submitted by "high school" students. If I didn't know better I'd say they were professional developers.

  2. Have ANY projects been completed and integrated? by batkiwi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I know from looking the last 2 years that the projects for both PSI and MythTV were accepted and started but never completed to a point where the maintainers put code into the full product.

    Are there ANY success stories?