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What is Google? Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet related services and products. Specializes in: online advertising technologies Search cloud computing Software Industry: Internet; Computer software Today, Google is the most popular search engine Mission: Organize the world’s information and make is universally accessible and useful “Search is at the heart of everything Google does”

History Founded in 1995 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page Sergey Brin and Larry Page were computer science students from Stanford University In 1996 Brin and Page developed their first search engine “BackRub” which was unsuccessful Brin and Page continued their efforts and renamed “BackRub” “Google” in 1997 In 1998,the first Google homepage was launched In 2000, Google Adwords was created with 350 customers Adwords is a quick and easy way for any business to advertise online In 2001, Google launched its International office in Tokyo, Japan and introduced “Google Images” with 250 million images

History In 2002, the Google news was launched with 4000 new resources online In April 2004, Gmail was launched In 2005, Google Maps and Google Talk was created In 2006, Youtube joins Google In 2008, Google introduces their web browser Google Chrome to be “faster, easier, and safer” In 2011, Google launched Google+, which is a social networking service

Industry Internet; Computer software

Product/Business Lines continued… Development tools Google App Engine: tool that allows developers to write and run web applications Dart: a structured web programming language Security tools reCAPTCHA: a user dialogue system Map-related products Google Maps: mapping service Google Sky: internet tool to view stars and galaxies Statistical tools Google Analytics: Traffic statistics generator for defined websites

Product/Business Lines continued… Operating Systems Android Google TV Desktop Applications Google Chrome: web browser Google Earth: virtual 3D globe that uses satellite imagery Mobile Applications Drive: View document on a mobile device Gmail: access a Gmail account from a mobile device

Location Headquarters: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View CA, 94043 The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google, Inc. Google has more than 70 offices in more than 40 countries around the world

Employees Number of employees: 61,814 full-time employees (2015) Google calls their employees “Googlers”

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Estimation of Revenues In 2015, Google's revenue amounted to 74.54 billion US dollars Google's revenue is largely made up by advertising revenue, which amounted to 67.39 billion in 2015

Google’s Mentoring Program -Google Summer of Code- Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an online, international, mentoring program which encourages college student participation in open source development. Open source development is the process by which open- source software is developed. GSoC provides the framework for students to work for an open source software organization.

Why did Google create a mentoring program? Brin and Page developed Google Summer of Code to encourage students to expand their knowledge on coding To inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development To provide students in Computer Science and related field the opportunity to do work related to their academics during the summer To give college students more exposure to real-word software development scenarios

Why did Google create a mentoring program? Brin and Page wanted to get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all To help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and mentors To assist students to build a strong network when applying for jobs To help organizations continue to identify and bring in new developers every year

Who created Google Summer of Code? GSoC was developed in 2005 directly by Google’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page Brin and Page met at Stanford University in 1995 By 1997, they developed Google to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web Then, in 2005 Brin and Page developed Google Summer of Code to encourage students to expand their knowledge on coding

When was GSOC started? Developed in 2005

What does GSOC entail?/ Training Benefits students because the students gain exposure to real-world software development and employment opportunities Benefits mentors because they are able to identify and hire educated students to keep their code innovative GSoC matches students up with organizations to write code The organizations provide the students with mentors who act as guides through their entire coding project GSOC moves in phases after the student has been accepted into the mentorship program To become a student: the student has to be enrolled in an accredited academic institution and must be at least 18 years of age to participate Then, the student has to submit a project proposal to the mentoring organizations To become a mentor: organizations apply to be mentoring organizations by inputting their open source software projects Then, Google chooses the organizations to participate as a mentor Once a student and mentor are chosen: The mentoring organizations choose the students they would like to accept After that, students are paired with a mentor to help them throughout their project Finally, once the students and mentors have been paired they move into the first phase which is the Community Bonding period

What does GSOC entail?/ Training First phase: “Community Bonding period” the student gets to know the community and gets familiar with their code base and work style Second phase “initial phase of coding” the student is evaluated with a midterm evaluation the midterm evaluation is an opportunity to evaluate the students and mentors. This allows the mentor to evaluate the student it is not a test on the student’s coding abilities but it allows the student and mentor to give feedback on their relationship and overall project The final phase time to complete the student’s project during this phase there is a final evaluation the student has to submit their code project they developed GSoC’s goals: to get more code written and released inspire students to participate in open source development provide students the opportunity to do real-world work related to their academic studies

How did I learn about GSoC? I learned from this mentorship program by watching the movie The Internship. The Internship is a comedy about two individuals that are seeking employments after being laid off from their jobs. Then, they apply for internships at Google and are accepted into the program. So, they spend their Summer competing in teams against other eligible Summer interns. Therefore, the first thing to come to my mind when having to choose a mentorship program to develop a project on was GSoC.

Strengths of GSoC Help students find work related to their academic pursuits Benefits students because the students gain exposure to real- world software development and employment opportunities Benefits mentors because they are able to identify and hire educated students to keep their code innovative Provides exposure to the entire software development process and tool chain Students get the chance to work on a code base under active development rather than a lab project or other single use assignment Most of the organizations participating over the past eleven years reported that the mentor program helped them find new employees

Weaknesses of GSoC Being paired with a mentor that is not beneficial for the student Limited time to learn and grow- GSoC only runs for three short months so it doesn’t give students and mentors a long time to build their relationship Competitive program- as a student you have to write a proposal to be accepted into the program 1,300 students are accepted Over 100,000 students apply

Problems? Dividing out who receives stipends This was a problem because Google’s founders could not figure out how/who should receive stipends versus who should not How was this addressed? The below was outlined in the program rules handbook Students in good standing with their Organization after the Community Bonding Period receive a $500 stipend Students who passed the mid-term Evaluation receive a $2,250 stipend Students who passed the final evaluation receive a $2,750 stipend shortly after the final Evaluation deadline.

Accomplishments GSoC has linked students with organizations that have provided them jobs to further their education GSoC has linked organizations with students to be able to increase their employees and knowledge in their companies GSoC has inspired young developers to begin participating in open source development GSoC has provided students more exposure to real-world software development

How has GSoC measured success? GSoC measures success by calculating how many students successfully complete the program (overall success rate) 2015- 88.2% 2014- 89.7% 2013- 88.9% GSoC measures success by figuring out how many students have been accepted that given year 2015- 1051 students accepted from 73 countries 2014- 1307 students accept from 72 countries 2013- 1192 students accepted from 70 countries GSoC measures success by figuring out how many mentors have been accepted that given year 2015- 1903 mentors from 68 countries 2014- 2491 mentors from 78 countries 2013- 2212 mentors from 70 countries

Recommendations I recommend that GSoC becomes a longer-term program Instead of only running from 3 months I believe they need to run for 6-9 months to be able to build a strong mentor-student relationship I believe this will allow the student to learn more from their mentor I believe this will allow organizations to find more employees and figure out who they want for their organization I recommend that GSoC expands their program and chooses more students and mentors Currently on average 1,000 are accepted out of 100,000 that apply I believe they need to average 5,000 students accepted per year to give more students and mentors opportunities in this field

What did I learn and how will it help me? I learned how a successful, consistent mentoring program can be beneficial for organizations, just like Google. GSoC provides many benefits for individuals inside the organization and out. So, I believe this will help me because it demonstrated the importance of a positive mentoring program in order to be effective.

How was this project researched? Online databases Google searches Wikipedia Public forums I asked questions to current students and mentors regarding the mentoring program

References Corporate Information. (2010). Company Overview. Retrieved from http://www.google.com/corporate Fortunate 500. (2010). Top Companies. Retrieved from http://money.cnn.com/magizine/fortune/fortune 500/2010/employers Google Query. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.google.com/corporate.tech.html Google. (2016). Our History in Depth. Retrieved from https://www.google.com/about/company/history/ Google Summer of Code. (2016). Google Summer of Code. Retrieved from https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/ Pico, A., Massey, B., Leto, J., Redman, J., Deckelmann, S., Smith, C., & Tewari, M. (2010). GSoC Student Guide. Retrieved from http://write.flossmanuals.net/gsocstudentguide/how-gsoc-works/