Google Summer of Code 2008

Event: Google Summer of Code (Website)

Organized By: Google

Key Dates:
Deadline for Accepting Applications for Mentoring Organization: March 12, 2008
Accepting Applications for Student: March 24, 2008 Onwards
Deadline for student Applications: March 31, 2008

Google Summer of Code is the flagship program of Google, designed to introduce university students to open source development. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Google will be working with a several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Students can discuss ideas with the groups registered as the mentoring organization with the Google Summer of Code.

While the majority of past student participants were enrolled in university Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs, GSoCers come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds, from computational biology to mining engineering. Many of their past participants had never participated in an open-source project before GSoC; others used the GSoC stipend as an opportunity to concentrate fully on their existing open source coding activities over the summer. Google will provide a stipend of 5000 USD per accepted student developer, of which 4500 USD goes to the student and 500 USD goes to the mentoring organization.

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