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Five years of introducing students to open source
August 26, 2009
We've just concluded our fifth
Google Summer of Code
, our
flagship global program
to introduce college and university students to open source development. Once again, the results this year have been impressive. Nearly 2,000 mentors from 64 countries participated in the program. They worked to bring 1,000 students from 69 countries into the communities of
150 free and open source projects
. We're particularly excited this year to have introduced several students to open source development that has a direct impact on social causes, from
microfinance software
to
global educational initiatives
to
making government data more transparent and accessible
. Three months and hundreds of thousands of lines of code later, 85 percent of our student participants have successfully completed their projects. We'll be publishing more extensive program statistics and wrap up reports in the coming weeks on the
Google Open Source Blog
, so stay tuned there for more news about Google Summer of Code.
We'd like to congratulate all of our student participants for their hard work and tremendous achievements this summer. We're excited to hear that many of our students have planned out the next few months of their coding work with their chosen open source project. Finally, our sincerest thanks to all of our mentors for volunteering their time and expertise to help these students more actively engage with open source development.
Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager, Open Source Team
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