Google Code-in Wrapup
This was a great year for Google Code-In. We had a total of 361 students complete at least one task during our contest period. We are still compiling the statistics on our participants and plan to post a follow-up once we are done reviewing tasks soon….
We wanted to do a quick check-in on Google Code-in to let you know how the contest is going. We are just over four weeks into the contest – more than halfway. We’re quite excited about the participation thus far and hope more of you are planning to…
Google Code-in: Contest is Open!
We’re pleased to announce that today marks the start of the Google Code-in contest. Students who are at least 13 years old and not more than 18 years old and are currently enrolled in a pre-university school on November 22, 2010 are eligible to parti…
Announcing Accepted Organizations for Google Code-in
We’re pleased to announce that today we have chosen 20 open source organizations to participate as mentoring organizations in Google Code-in.Here’s a list of our participating organizations this year:1. The Apertium Project2. The Battle for Wesnoth…
Google Code-in: School’s Out, Code’s In!
We are very pleased to announce Google Code-in, an open source development and outreach contest targeted at 13-18 year old students around the world.Some of you may remember the pilot program from 2007-2008 we ran called the Google Highly Open Particip…
Ohio LinuxFest Wrap-up
I just got back from Ohio LinuxFest, a three-day all-volunteer conference on free and open source software held in Columbus, Ohio. A wonderful group of about 800 people, some from the Midwest, some of whom were from other parts of the country, some of …
We’ve just finished our 6th year of Google Summer of Code™, our innovative program designed to introduce students at colleges and universities around the world to open source software development. Over 2000 mentors and over 1000 students from 69 co…
Google Summer of Code Midterm Evaluations
Midterm evaluations for Google Summer of Code 2010™ have wrapped up and we have some great news about the program.Out of the over 1,000 participating students from the beginning of the program, 964 have passed their midterm evaluation. That’s just …
Google Summer of Code BoF at USENIX
USENIX is a technical organization that has a lot of community members associated with our open source efforts as well as lots of strong ties to the research community. A couple weeks ago I attended the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC). Googler…
Following up on my post from a few weeks ago, I’d like to give you all some more statistics about our Google Summer of Code™ program participants this year. • We have 69 student countries represented this year. New countries represented by studen…
The second annual Open Source Bridge, held in Portland, Oregon, was a blast. I presented a talk on Foundations, Non-Profits, and Open Source and I participated in some great sessions as well on topics ranging from How to Give a Great Tech Talk (includi…
Google Summer of Code 2010: Coding Starts Today!
Starting today all our students will formally begin coding their projects for Google Summer of Code™. Our students’ projects this year range from compilers to mobile applications, from web crawlers to virtual clusters, from APIs to social networkin…
The Ashpocalypse
Melange is the open source web app that runs Google Summer of Code™ each year. It is being developed and maintained by a volunteer team of student developers in several different countries. I try to meet with the Melange developers about every quarte…
Google Summer of Code 2010: Meet the Students!
We’ve had a great showing from students around the world for Google Summer of Code™ this year. In all, we accepted 1,026 students from 69 countries worldwide. Our top ten countries by number of students accepted this year are: United States (197), …
This Year’s Google Summer of Code Students Announced!
Accepted students for Google Summer of Code™ have been announced! Congratulations to all the students accepted for this year’s program. We’re looking forward to a great summer.If you would like more information on what’s coming up next for Goog…