Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code ( GSoC for short ) is an annual programming grant organized by Google . Students can receive financial support by working on an open source project. The corresponding projects also take on a mentoring role and support the students in their work.
description
The competition was held for the first time in 2005, and according to Google, 419 students were selected from 8,744 applicants, 80 percent of whom achieved the goal and received the full prize . The three-month scholarship includes a total of US $ 5,500 , of which 5,000 goes to the student and 500 to the actual software project. The Summer of Code got its name based on the Summer of Love . Leslie Hawthorn was the program manager between 2007 and 2009. In 2010, Carol Smith took over management of the program.
Development scholarships
year | Number of projects | Number of scholarships for students | budget | Success rate | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2005 | 41 | 419 | $ 2.0 million | 80% | |
2006 | 102 | 630 | $ 3.0M | 82% | |
2007 | 135 | 905 | $ 4.0 million | 81% | |
2008 | 174 | 1,125 | $ 5.0 million | 83% | |
2009 | 150 | 1,000 | $ 5.0 million | 85% | |
2010 | 150 | 1,026 | $ 5.0 million | 89% | |
2011 | 175 | 1,115 | $ 7.2 million | 88% | 50 new projects that had not yet participated in the Google Summer of Code. |
2012 | 180 | 1,212 | 88% | 41 new projects that had not yet participated in the Google Summer of Code. | |
2013 | 177 | 1,192 | 88.6% | 40 new projects that had not yet participated in the Google Summer of Code. | |
2014 | 190 | 1,307 | 89.7% | 10th anniversary. | |
2015 | 137 | 1,051 | 88.2% | 37 new projects that had not yet participated in the Google Summer of Code. | |
2016 | 178 | 1,206 | 85.6% | ||
2017 | 201 | 1,309 | 86.2% | ||
2018 | 212 | 1,264 | 84.8% |
Projects in which students participate (selection)
- AbiSource
- Adium
- AerospaceResearch.net
- Apache Software Foundation
- Ardor
- ArgoUML
- Battle for Wesnoth
- Bazaar
- beagle
- Blender Foundation
- Boost C ++
- BZFlag
- Coppermine Photo Gallery
- Creative Commons
- Crystal Space
- Debian
- Django
- Drupal
- DSpace
- Eclipse
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Ether boat
- eXist
- Fedora
- FFmpeg
- FreeBSD
- FreedroidRPG
- Freenet Project Inc
- Freevo
- Freifunk
- GCC
- gEDA Project
- Gentoo Foundation
- Git
- Gnomes
- GNU project
- GnuCash
- GNUstep
- Haiku
- hugin / panotools
- Inkscape
- Internet2
- Jikes
- Joomla
- JSBML
- KDE
- LimeSurvey
- Mapbender
- MacPorts
- maemo
- MoinMoin Wiki Project
- Mono project
- Moodle
- Mozilla Foundation
- MySQL AB
- NetBSD
- Nmap
- OGRE
- One laptop per child
- Open Source Applications Foundation
- OpenAFS
- OpenCog
- Open moko
- OpenOffice.org
- OpenSolaris
- OpenStreetMap
- Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL)
- OSCAR
- Open Source Geospatial Foundation
- Open Roberta
- The Perl Foundation
- PHP
- phpBB
- Pidgin
- Plan 9
- PlanetMath
- Plone Foundation
- PostgreSQL
- Python Software Foundation
- ReactOS
- Rockbox
- Ruby Central, Inc.
- Sage Math software
- samba
- Scala
- SCons Foundation
- Scribus
- ScummVM
- SilverStripe
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- Squeak
- SquirrelMail
- subversion
- TYPO3
- Ubuntu
- VideoLAN
- Vim
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Wine Project
- WordPress
- wxPython
- wxWidgets
- X.Org Foundation
- Xiph.Org Foundation
- XMMS 2
- XMPP Standards Foundation
- Zikula
- Zope Foundation
Web links
- Google Summer of Code (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ GSOC FAQ ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bruce Byfield: Google's Summer of Code concludes. September 21, 2005, accessed July 23, 2013 .
- ↑ Guidelines for Google Summer of Code ™ Press Materials 2009. Archived from the original on April 14, 2009 ; Retrieved July 23, 2013 .
- ↑ Guidelines for Google Summer of Code ™ Press Materials 2010. March 2010, archived from the original on March 20, 2012 ; Retrieved July 23, 2013 .
- ^ Program Information for Past Years in the google-summer-of-code-wiki
- ↑ Sean Kerner: Google Summer of Code 2009 opens up with Melange. internetnews.com, 2009, accessed August 25, 2011 .
- ↑ Harald M.genauck: Google draws a conclusion on the Summer of Code 2012. heise.de, August 30, 2012, accessed on September 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Google Summer Of Code 2012 - Accepted Organizations. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 28, 2012 ; Retrieved July 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mentors for Google's Summer of Code 2012 have been announced. In: Heise online . Retrieved March 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Google's Summer of Code: Successful Open Source Promotion . heise online
- ^ Google Summer of Code 2013 - Accepted Organizations. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 22, 2013 ; Retrieved July 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Google announces mentors for Summer of Code 2013. In: Heise online. Retrieved April 9, 2013 .
- ↑ Students Announced for Google Summer of Code 2013. Google-opensource.blogspot.de, accessed on July 23, 2013 .
- ↑ 10th Year of Google Summer of Code draws to a close. Retrieved October 31, 2016 .
- ↑ http://google-opensource.blogspot.in/2015/03/mentoring-organizations-for-google.html
- ↑ Statistics. Retrieved October 31, 2016 .
- ↑ The "Google Summer of Code 2017" is over - Pro-Linux . In: Pro-Linux . ( pro-linux.de ).
- ↑ That's a wrap for Google Summer of Code 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .