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Google Pumps $6 Million Into Summer of Code 2011

Posted by timothy on from the will-you-be-my-mentor-today dept.

darthcamaro writes "Google Summer of Code 2011 is now underway. Google is providing stipends for 1,116 students to mentor with 175 open source projects. In total, Google will be investing over $6 million dollars into Summer of Code 2011. There are a few project omissions this time around though. Neither Fedora nor Ubuntu have any students this year."

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  1. Cheap investment by Elektroschock · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you consider how helpful this is for recruitment and winning the hearts and minds of the programming elite this program is actually cheap. I would recommend governments and supranational organisations to do the same.