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Highlights From the 2009 Google Summer of Code

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-skipped-the-lowlights dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Over a 1000 students were accepted into the fifth year of the program from 70 countries and will work on about 150 open source projects with mentor organisations. The program, created in 2005, has exposed some 2500 students to "real-world" software development and opened employment opportunities within mentor organisations and in fields relevant to their academic study. The United States scored the lion's share with 212 accepted students; 101 from India; 55 from Germany; 44 from Canada, 43 from Brazil. The Dominican Republic, Iceland, Luxembourg and Nigeria were new entrants to the program each with a single accepted student. Check out the slideshow summary of some project highlights, with hyperlinks back the detailed project pages."

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  1. they didnt acepted me by hviniciusg · · Score: 3, Funny

    I dont know why they didnt liked my confiker worm :(

  2. Aussies, Kiwis enter Google Summer of Code? by klubar · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the article: "Eight Australians and five Kiwis have made the cut for the 2009 Google Summer of Code, announced today."

    Should Aussies and Kiwis be eligible for "summer of code"? It seems to me that they should only be able to enter the "winter of code" contest if it takes place during June through August.

    1. Re:Aussies, Kiwis enter Google Summer of Code? by D+Ninja · · Score: 3, Funny

      Should Aussies and Kiwis be eligible for "summer of code"?

      Psh. I'm still trying to figure out how a fruit knows how to code in the first place.

    2. Re:Aussies, Kiwis enter Google Summer of Code? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      A kiwi is a bird.

      The fruit you're thinking of Kiwifruit. Either that or you're calling the bird (or New Zealanders) gay. I'm not sure which.

  3. How wonderful would it be... by Thanshin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soon. It will come. I can almost see it.

    "Highlights from the NAN Microsoft summer ~#33-
    ccc00003322"

    And a large BSOD.

  4. Re:Will be "mentoring" two participants. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    mentor: the person from the sponsoring organization that will be rewriting or discarding most of the code produced by the GSoC participants.

    As a two time mentor, I think that definition is a little more accurate.

  5. automated duplicate detection ?!?!? by RobBebop · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Mozilla organization is going to sponsor a program to automatically identify dupes? Don't they realize what this could mean for the future of the entire internet AS WE KNOW IT? Think of the disaster it would cause... not being able to re-read the same flamewars over-and-over again.

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