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Highlights From the 2009 Google Summer of Code
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."
A few basic definitions to make this post clearer:
participant: student accepted into the program
sponsoring organization: pretty obvious one, the organization sponsoring the participants
mentor: the person from the sponsoring organization delegated to manage GSoC participants
I'm pretty psyched. I've got two students to mentor on two different projects - I think it's going to be a great summer.
GSoC is a brilliant program on google's part - they are transparent about their aims: to get the "sponsors" to evaluate the participants so google can think about hiring them.
Google avoids headhunter fees, gets an in-depth real-world evaluation with a significant codebase to review and open-source projects get quality work.
Google may still pwn my datas, but hey: this is clearly not evil.
That's right, all this for 14 giant-size icons on 14 pages of ads and other garbage to read the 14 sentences of text that contain all the important info.
Or I could paste them here.
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
epresent more than a 5 million dollar investment this summer, which is not petty cash or an insignificant investment for *any* organization.
It is a petty amount when your total cash on hand is 17 billion dollars.
I don't know why you picked that one out. It will add a feature that visibly improves the quality of all image shrinks, past what Photoshop can do out of the box. It's a really useful, basic improvement.
Read about it here if you're curious:
http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/SummerOfCode2009ideas#head-ee0a4959625baa7bff3da72ec494b0f5f10859dd
Were the BSDs not involved in GSoC this year?
Did you even look at the list?
DragonflyBSD: http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/dragonflybsd/
FreeBSD: http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/freebsd/
NetBSD: http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/netbsd/
I have to disagree on that one. The Google Summer of Code is basically run by 5 people from the Open Source Programs Office. There's no one from HR involved.
Google has absolutely no control over who gets selected. The orgs alone choose their students. The only feedback that Google gets from the Summer of Code projects are two routinely hurriedly written reports from the orgs at mid-term and end of project.
Finally, of those that successfully complete the Summer of Code, less than 1% end up as Google interns and even less as full-time engineers.
Aha, a bit more hunting around and here we go: more statistics than you could shake a stick at.