Google Summer of Code™
\"Flip bits not burgers\"
http://code.google.com/soc/
Saturday, March 14, 2009

What is GSoC?
The idea behind the Google
Summer of Code (GSoC) is to
motivate students to participate in
Open Source development. This
program tries to accomplish this in
that Google is offering students
stipends to work on Open Source
projects during the summer.
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Organizations
Only some of the orgs that participated in 2008:
Adium, Apache, Audacity, Blender, Boost C++,
Coppermine, Creative Commons, Debian, Django,
Dragonfly BSD, Drupal, Eclipse, EFF, Etherboot, Fedora,
FreeBSD, Freenet, Gallery, gcc, Geeklog, Gentoo, GIMP,
git, Gnome, Google, Haskell, Inkscape, Internet Archive,
Jikes RVM, Joomla, KDE, Linden Lab, Linux, LLVM,
Mercurial, MoinMoin, Mono, Mozilla, MySQL, NetBSD,
Nmap, OLPC, OpenMoko, OpenStreetMap, openSUSE,
Perl, PHP, Pidgin, Plone, PostgreSQL, Python, Rockbox,
Samba, Subversion, Tcl/Tk, TeX, Tux4Kids, VideoLAN,
Vim, Wikimedia, Wine, WordPress, X.Org, Zope
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Role of the Organizations
• provide list of project
ideas
• usually accept
student ideas, too
• provide mentors for
the students
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Payment
• Google provides
$5000 per project
• $500 for the
organization
• $4500 for the student
• ... and a t-shirt
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Benefits for Students
• get some real-life
experience in
software development
• ... and Open Source
development
• software created will
actually be used
• have \"Google\" in your
CV
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Benefits for
Organizations
• get new functionality
and improvements
implemented
• get new members for
the community
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Benefits for Google?
• not a recruiting
program!
• but reserve right to
make an offer to
outstanding students
• give back to the Open
Source community
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Participation
Organizations Students
1500
1125
1125 1000
900
750 630
400
375
175 150
130
100
40
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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Success Rate 2008
successful not successful
17%
83%
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Timeline
• March 9-13: Open Source
organizations can apply to participate
• March 18: List of accepted
organizations will be published
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Timeline (2)
• March 23 - April 3: Students apply
with the organizations
• Organizations talk to Google about the
number of students they get
• April 20: List of accepted students
will be published
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Timeline (3)
• \"Community Bonding Period\"
• starting May 23: Coding Period
• July 6-13: Mid-Term Evaluation
• August 17: End of Coding Period
• August 24: Final Evaluations
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Organization Acceptance
Criteria
• organizations provide:
• mentors, list of project ideas
• established Open Source
organizations with working
communities preferred
• \"do we know you?\"
• performance in previous years
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Student Application
• Contact organizations early!
• Your own ideas are usually welcome,
but do some research first.
• Pay attention to feedback
• Application: \"about me\" + project plan
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Payment
• $500 at start of
Coding Period
• $2000 after Mid-
Term Evaluation
• $2000 after Final
Evaluation
• T-Shirt + certificate
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Summary
• http://code.google.com/soc/
• List of organizations: March 18
• Student application period:
March 23 - April 3
• Coding Period: May 23 - August 17
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Credits
• Photos via
flickr.com, thanks
to: Austin Ziegler,
Kevin T. Houle,
secretlondon123,
Seb Ruiz, Pınar
Yanardağ, manuki
• Data and GSoC
Logo: Google
Saturday, March 14, 2009