June 29th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Earlier this month the Google Open Source Programs office welcomed eight* of the ten Grand Prize winners of the Google Code-in 2011 contest, a contest designed to introduce pre-university students (age 13-17) to the many ways they can contribute to ope…
June 25th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Over the last few weeks we have been posting a collection of numbers on this year’s Google Summer of Code program. Our last post focused on the students that have participated in the program for multiple years. Now we’d like to look at the number o…
June 19th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Google Summer of Code is in full swing and, besides all the coding, participants are also organizing meetups all over the world. These meetups allow Google Summer of Code students and mentors to meet in person and talk about the awesome contributions t…
June 11th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Docs, Google Open Source, Google Voice
When a country is unable to hold regular elections, how do people make their voices heard? That’s the challenge today in Somalia, which hasn’t had a permanent government since 1991. Somalia is in the middle of drafting a new provisional constitutio…
June 8th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
We have just completed our fourth year of the UCOSP (Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects) program and are already planning for a fifth. In this multi-university collaboration, students from across Canada – 13 schools this past year – participat…
June 4th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
In this year’s Google Summer of Code, there are 227 students from India participating in the program. In order to engage with this year’s Google Summer of Code students we are organizing a series of five meetups over the summer for the participants…
June 1st, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
One of the most important goals of Google Summer of Code is to give students the experience of working in an open source environment and encourage them to stay involved even after the program concludes. A meaningful value to measure future commitment i…
May 31st, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
As opposed to what? The *non*-technical conference for people who write operating systems in their free time? 
Anyway, it turned out mostly true. It was my first BSDCan and it was very focused on actually developing BSD systems, as opposed to …
May 30th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
A great thanks goes out to Google for hosting the 3rd Gerrit Code Review Hackathon earlier this month at their Mountain View campus, it was well attended and very productive. After quickly deciding to focus on adding a plugin framework to Gerrit during…
May 25th, 2012 | by Cat Allman | published in Google Open Source
When we published the annual list of schools with the largest number of accepted students for Google Summer of Code 2012, we received an email pointing out that we were missing one school that belongs in the Top 10. PESIT – Peoples Education Society i…
May 21st, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Today is the first day of coding for our 8th year of the Google Summer of Code program. This year 1,208 students will spend the next 12 weeks writing code for 180 different open source organizations. Students are working on a diverse group of projects …
May 18th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
And now the news that some of you have been waiting for: the annual list of schools with the largest number of accepted students for Google Summer of Code 2012!RankSchoolCountry# of Accepted Students# in 20111University of MoratuwaSri Lanka29272Polytec…
May 16th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
Congratulations to everyone who was accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012! I hope we have a great summer, and write some free, clean, reusable code.Free Software Macedonia is a local organization from Macedonia that again helped spread the word …
May 14th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
With May comes the annual ramp up of conference season, and Googlers who are part of the open source community will be giving talks and participating in events around the world over the next two months.Last week, Jeremy Allison attended Samba XP, …
May 10th, 2012 | by Stephanie Taylor | published in Google Open Source
So many of you have asked about the number of students from your particular country that we’ve decided to simply post the whole list. Number of Accepted Students by Country India = 227United States = 173Germany = 72Russian Federation = 56China = 45P…