The document provides information about Google Summer of Code, a program that offers stipends to student developers to write code for open source projects. The goals are to create more open source code, inspire young developers, help projects find new developers, and give students real-world development experience. Students apply online and are matched with mentoring organizations. If accepted, students receive stipends upon meeting milestones and must license their code. A wide range of technical organizations participate. Development is done online and code must be open source.

1. Google Summer of Code
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Lead Software Product Engineer
Signure Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
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2. What is Google Summer of Code?
• Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a
program that offers student developers
stipends to write code for various open
source projects.

3. What are the goals of this
program?

4. • Get more open source code created and released for
the benefit of all;
• Inspire young developers to begin participating in open
source development;
• Help open source projects identify and bring in new
developers and committers;
• Provide students in Computer Science and related fields
the opportunity to do work related to their academic
pursuits (think "flip bits, not burgers");
• Give students more exposure to real-world software
development scenarios (e.g., distributed development,
software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette).

5. Is Google Summer of Code a
recruiting program?
• Not really. To be clear, Google will use the
results of the program to help identify potential
recruits.
• Several of our past student participants said that
their participation in GSoC made them more
attractive to potential employers, and most
participants who have gained employment as a
result of their GSoC work are not currently
employed by Google.

6. When can I apply for Google
Summer of Code
• For 2008 it was March 3, 2008.
• For 2009 it will be declare soon ☺
• Keep eye on http://code.google.com/soc/2008/

7. How does the program work?

8. • Open source projects who'd like to participate in
Google Summer of Code in 2008 should choose
an organization administrator(s) to represent
them;
• Organization administrators will submit the
project's application for participation online;
• Google will notify the organization administrators
of acceptance, and an account for the
organization will be created in the Google
Summer of Code web app;

9. • Students submit project proposals online to work
with particular mentoring organizations;
• Mentoring organizations rank student proposals
and perform any other due diligence on their
potential mentees; student proposals are
matched with a mentor;
• Google allocates a particular number of student
slots to each organization;

10. • Mentors and students provide mid-term progress
evaluations;
• Mentors provide a final evaluation of student
progress at close of program; students submit a
final review of their mentor and the program;
• Student uploads completed code to a Google
Code hosted project.

11. • Students are notified of acceptance;
• Students begin learning more about their
mentoring organization and its community before
coding work starts;
• Students begin coding work at the official start of
the program, provided they've interacted well
with their community up until the program start
date;

12. Code

13. Who owns the code produced by
student developers?
• Each student (or her/his mentoring organization)
must license all student GSoC code under a
license palatable to the mentoring organization.
• Some organizations will require students to
assign copyright to them, but many will allow
them to retain copyright.
• If Google is a student's sponsoring organization,
then the student keeps copyright to her/his code.

14. Student stipends
• 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.
• Accepted students in good standing with their mentoring organization
will receive a 500 USD stipend shortly after coding begins on May 26,
2008.
• Students who receive passing mid-term evaluations will receive a
2000 USD stipend shortly after the mid-term evaluation deadline, July
14, 2008.
• Students who receive passing final evaluations and who have
submitted their final program evaluations will receive a 2000 USD
stipend and mentoring organizations will receive 500 USD shortly
after the final evaluation deadline, September 1, 2008.

15. What language(s) should a student
program in?
• Talk with your mentoring organization
about this and other technical style
questions.
• Of course, the Python people will prefer
Python submissions, and so on.
• Students should let us know in their
applications what languages they're
thinking about using.

16. Wide range of participating projects
• Operating Systems
• OS Enhancements
• Hardware Management
• Mobile, Portable, Handheld & Calculators
• Databases
• Programming Languages, Libraries & Compilers
• Code Design, Development & Management
• Open Source Development
• Internet & Networks
• Video, TV & Photography

17. • Web Technologies
• Content Management
• Office Applications & Text Editors
• Simulations, Modeling & Neural Network
• Analytical Sciences
• Biology & Health Care
• Graphics, 3D Rendering, CAD & Animation
• Game Development
• Mail, Phone & Instant Messaging
• Library Science & Publishing
• Multimedia, Audio & Music

18. Where must development occur?
• All development occurs online; there is no
requirement to travel as part of the
program.
• Google makes no provisions for office
space or travel to mentoring locations.
• All code development must happen in the
open and all code must be made available
publicly.

19. Useful Links
• Google Summer of Code web page
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
• Google Summer of Code FAQ
http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html
• Google Summer of Code program
discussion group
http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss

20. National Informatics Centre.
Enrolls final year students for full
semester project work.
www.nic.gov.in

21. Info
• National Informatics Centre,Ministry of Communication
& Information Technology enrolls final year students
from various educational institutions for undertaking full
semester project work.
• Students are selected on the basis of marks obtained in
previous semester/years of the degreee under which the
project is to be done & availability of suitable projects in
NIC.Selected Students are normally eligible for stipend
as per NIC's norms.
• Educational Institutions can forward the applications(s)
of their student(s) in the prescribed proforma.

22. Guidelines for Selected Student-
Trainee in NIC
• Only students belonging to full time MCA, M.E.(CS), M.Tech (CS),
and M.Sc.(CS) are eligible to undergo project training at NIC.
• Project Training should be a part of the regular curriculum of the
course/degree and should be full time of one semester duration.
• Project duration must be minimum of 4 months and maximum of 6
months.
• The project start date should be (1st Jan-10th Jan) for Jan
Semester or (1st Jul-10th Jul) for July semester every year.
• Students securing less than 60% marks in aggregate/total, in the
degree/discipline under which project is to be done should NOT be
sponsored for project work at NIC.

23. • For More Details Please Visit
• http://training.nic.in/studentmis/smis.html
• Section Officer, Personnel Division
National Informatics Centre
A-Block,Kendriya Karyalaya Parisar
Lodi Road
New Delhi-110 003
TEL:011-24305318
EMAIL : : personnel@nic.in

24. Scientrix
• Scientrix.org
• Scientrix is a community for Basic / Core Science
Researchers / PH. D. Students.
• They Need Programmers Computer
Professionals.
• Krishnakant.ic@gmail.com
• amitkarpe@gmail.com

25. Signure Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
• Signure is showing interest to involve
Students In Industry. ☺
• Signure Is a Hottest Startup company.

26. • Signure is a product innovation company.
• Post Resume on sign@signure.com
• With subject line Summer Internship. ☺

27. Do
http://groups.google.com/group/dept-of-cs-and-it-aurangabad
On Google Groups

28. Thanks
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