If you are a university student who 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, this is for you.
It is the Google Summer Code for 2013 and it is on.
The Google Summer Code is 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.
The program, which kicked off in 2005, is now in its ninth year. Over the past eight years Google Summer of Code has had 6,000 students from over 100 countries complete the program.
Carol Smith states that Google’ s goal is to help students pursue academic challenges over the summer break while they create and release open source code for the benefit of all.
While the majority of past student participants were enrolled in university or college Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs, Google Summer of Coders come from a wide variety of educational backgrounds and degree programs (Bachelors/Masters/PhDs), from computational biology to mining engineering. Many of the past participants had never participated in an open source project before Google Summer of Code; others used the Google Summer of Code stipend as an opportunity to concentrate fully on their existing open source coding activities over the summer.
