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."

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liqbase was accepted!

[LiquidCoooled]

I am so pleased that I have an extra pair of hands over the summer.

my liqbase project was one proposal out of 10 selected for the maemo.org community.
we are building applications for the nokia internet tablet device.

obviously I should show off what I'm building ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMXp0Dg_UaY

I got accepted!

[Anonymous Coward]

I was accepted to work on a Windows package manager called WinLibre for GSoC 2009. I can't wait! You can read about it here: http://www.excid3.com/2009/04/20/accepted-into-google-summer-of-code-2009/