This will be the 8th year for
Google Summer of Code, an innovative program dedicated to introducing
students from colleges and universities around the world to open source software development.
The program offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects
with the help of mentoring organizations from all around the globe. Over the past seven years
Google Summer of Code has had 6,000 students from over 90 countries
complete the program. Our goal is to help these students pursue academic challenges over the
summer break while they create and release open source code for the benefit of all.
Spread the word to your friends! If you know of a university student that
would be interested in working on open source projects this summer, or if you know of an
organization that might want to mentor students to work on their open source projects, please
direct them to our Google Summer of Code 2012 website where they can find our timeline along with the FAQs. And stay tuned for more details coming soon!
