Google Summer of Code™ "Flip bits not burgers"

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.

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

Role of the Organizations provide list of project ideas usually accept student ideas, too provide mentors for the students

Payment Google provides $5000 per project Google provides $5000 per project $500 for the organization $4500 for the student... and a t-shirt

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

Benefits for Organizations get new functionality and improvements implemented get new members for the community

Benefits for Google? not a recruiting program! but reserve right to make an offer to outstanding students give back to the Open Source community

Participation

Success Rate 2008

Timeline March 9-13: Open Source organizations can apply to participate March 9-13: Open Source organizations can apply to participate March 18: List of accepted organizations will be published March 18: List of accepted organizations will be published

Timeline (2) March 23 - April 3: Students apply with the organizations March 23 - April 3: Students apply with the organizations Organizations talk to Google about the number of students they get Organizations talk to Google about the number of students they get April 20: List of accepted students will be published April 20: List of accepted students will be published

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

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

Student Application Contact organizations early! Your own ideas are usually welcome, but do some research first. Your own ideas are usually welcome, but do some research first. Pay attention to feedback Application: "about me" + project plan

Payment $500 at start of Coding Period $500 at start of Coding Period $2000 after Mid-Term Evaluation $2000 after Mid-Term Evaluation $2000 after Final Evaluation $2000 after Final Evaluation T-Shirt + certificate

List of organizations: March 18 List of organizations: March 18 Student application period:March 23 - April 3 Student application period:March 23 - April 3 Coding Period: May 23 - August 17 Coding Period: May 23 - August 17 Summary

Credits Photos via flickr.com, thanks to: Austin Ziegler, Kevin T. Houle, secretlondon123, Seb Ruiz, Pınar Yanardağ, manukiflickr.comAustin Ziegler Kevin T. Houle secretlondon123Seb Ruiz Pınar Yanardağmanuki Data and GSoC Logo: Google DataGSoC Logo Google