The 11th year of Google Summer of Code comes to an end
August 28th, 2015 | Published in Google Open Source
Another year of Google Summer of Code, our program designed to introduce university students from around the world to open source development, is drawing to a close.
In April, we accepted 1,051 university students from 73 countries. These students wrote code for 137 mentoring organizations. We also had 1,918 mentors from 70 countries help them out. We are excited to announce that 87%* (916) of the students passed their final evaluations. To see more about how that compares to previous years, check out our statistics from the last ten years of the program.
And we’re not done yet: this November, we’ll be hosting our yearly mentor summit in Sunnyvale, California. We’ll welcome representative mentors and organization administrators from each of the mentoring organizations from this year’s program to meet and exchange ideas.
Now that the coding period has concluded, students are busy preparing their code samples for all eyes to see. Soon you will be able to visit the program site where organizations will have links to the students’ code repositories.
Thank you to all of the students, mentors and organization administrators that have helped to make this 11th year of the Google Summer of Code a great success!
By Carol Smith, Open Source Programs
* This number could change slightly in the next few weeks.