1. Sarah M. Sack Medaille College MOL-624E Asmt 6.2

2. 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”

3. 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

4. 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

5. Industry
Internet; Computer software

6. 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

7. 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

8. Location
Headquarters: 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

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

10. Organizational Chart

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

12. 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.

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. When was GSOC started?
Developed in 2005

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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.

23. 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

24. How has GSoC measured success?
GSoC measures success by calculating how many students successfully complete the program (overall success rate) % % %
GSoC measures success by figuring out how many students have been accepted that given year
students accepted from 73 countries
students accept from 72 countries
students accepted from 70 countries
GSoC measures success by figuring out how many mentors have been accepted that given year
mentors from 68 countries
mentors from 78 countries
mentors from 70 countries

25. 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

26. 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.

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

28. References
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Pico, A., Massey, B., Leto, J., Redman, J., Deckelmann, S., Smith, C., & Tewari, M. (2010). GSoC Student Guide. Retrieved from