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 several open source, free software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund several projects over a three month period. Historically, the program has brought together over 1,500 students with over 130 open source projects to create millions of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its fourth year. If you are feeling nostalgic or are interested in learning more about the projects we have worked with in the past, check out the 2006 and 2007 program pages.
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 our 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. Many of our "graduates" have later become program mentors.
Google Summer of Code
Ecco una lodevole iniziativa, tra tentativi di pishing, truffe, perdite di dati e problemi, ecco finalmente qualcosa di buono, una iniziativa di google che va avanti da molto tempo, in pratica google, dice per amore dello sviluppo ed io spero sia così, offre un finanziamento a degli studenti di informatica per lo sviluppo ed il mantenimento di 130 progetti open source, io trovo che dovrebbero essere più società ad agire così, e voi, cosa ne pensate?