Story 2014-03-18 3G8 Ten Years of Google's Summer of Code

Ten Years of Google's Summer of Code

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Remember the first time you heard about Google's Summer of Code ? Well, time flies: Google's well-liked summer coding internship program is celebrating its 10th year. And it's got a lot to be proud of.
What is likely to remain the same this year is the overwhelming response from students from all over the world who want the chance to work on free and open source projects with mentoring organizations that Google has hand-picked. Carol Smith, Open Source Programs Manager at Google, tells us that to date GSoC students have helped generate over 50 million lines of open source code to date, from over 8,500 student developers.
Previous summers of code have helped the KDE and FreeBSD projects advance in useful and significant ways, and it's brought a huge number of young programmers into the open source ecosystem, a good thing by any measure. Here's hoping the next ten years of the Summer of Code lead us to bold and interesting places! Or at least help us build the tools that enable us to avoid the robot apocalypse. Whichever.
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good corporate citizenship (Score: 1)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-03-18 12:16 (#N6)

Sounds like this program is one way Google gives back.

Does it give them a chance to identify future employees as well? If so, its win-win.

I have a cunning plan... (Score: 1)

by songofthepogo@pipedot.org on 2014-03-18 18:14 (#NN)

Why not make this year's Summer of Code all about fixing the recent spate of botched ACA health exchange sites?