Mountain View, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 5, 2008 - The Google Summer of Code program has reported involvement of over 900 students, with over 130 open source mentoring groups last year.
Including such prominent organizations as Dojo, Python, Samba and Ubuntu, several past students are still contributing to their projects and many are serving as mentors in this year's program. Meanwhile, similar programs are springing up all over, including the Finnish Summer Code Program, the GNOME Women's Summer Outreach Program, the Season of Usability, and game publisher NCSoft's Winter of Code.
Over the coming months Google will be working with open source and free software groups to select hundreds of student projects from thousands of applications. Then, during the summer, Google will distribute millions of dollars in stipends to the students cranking out the code. Google's goal is to increase the world's supply of open source software while providing young programmers inspiring, meaningful summer jobs.
According to Google, this year's Summer of Code promises to be the most successful ever held. The program has been extended to allow students and mentors to discuss applications before settling in to write them, and we're continuing last year's tradition of announcing accepted applicants early to allow students more time to bond with their project communities.
Google looks forward to applications from organizations and students eager to participate. Applications close March 12; for students, applications open March 24 and close March 31. Coding will run from May 26 through August 18.
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.
To learn more about the Google Summer of Code, please visit: http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html.
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