All Answers: [pakgrid] Google Code Summer

Monday 29 April 2013

[pakgrid] Google Code Summer

Dear all

Please share following opportunity with relevant students :

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. Google has worked with the open source community to identify and fund exciting projects for the upcoming summer. Historically, the program has brought together over 5,500 students with over 390 open source projects, to create millions of lines of code. The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its ninth year.

While the majority of past student participants were enrolled in university or college Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs, Google Summer of Coders come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds and degree programs (Bachelors/Masters/PhDs), from computational biology to mining engineering. Many of the past participants had never participated in an open source project before Google Summer of Code; others used the Google Summer of Code stipend as an opportunity to concentrate fully on their existing open source coding activities over the summer. Many of the Google 'graduates' have later become program mentors. This is a global program run completely online.

Google Summer of Code has several goals:
- Create and release open source code 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 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)

Complete details of this year's program are available here: http://goo.gl/Wqdlm and it's a great chance for PAKISTANI students to prove their ability in the global landscape! People with computer sciences background are highly encouraged to apply. Remember that the Student Application DEADLINE is: Friday, May 03, 2013 – 19:00 UTC so APPLY NOW!