Google’s “Summer of Code” has been such a popular program that Google has been forced to double the funding for the program to accept 400 students, reports Slashdot.
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From the Summer of Code site (which has an Atom feed but no permalinks):
We’re Expanding the Summer of Code – 17/Jun/2005
After spot reviewing the applications we’ve received for the Summer of Code, we were struck with their high quality. As a result, we were able to increase the funds available to support 400 students, double our original number of 200. While this doesn’t allow us to take all applicants, we thought that this would be a terrific thing to do for the mentoring organizations, the students, open source software and computer science.
One poster noted that Google’s Greg Stein posted an accounting of all the submissions received so far:
Well we’re over 5300 proposals now from about 4000 applicants. Here are the current numbers:
696 google
486 asf
466 gaim
309 gnome
289 other
245 mono
214 psf
211 kde
207 freebsd
170 ubuntu
150 nmap
144 gallery
124 wine
123 mambo
114 oo
110 fedoracore
92 mozdev
75 lj
75 codehaus
74 drupal
74 blender
73 svn
71 internet2
61 tpl
61 netbsd
59 winlibre
59 handhelds
58 plg
57 jabber
51 jxta
50 lispnyc
44 samba
39 xwiki
39 semedia
32 asterisk
31 horde
26 inkscape
24 monotone
19 psu
19 bricolage
18 ohiolink
17 oscar
TOTAL: 5356
Here are the counts for the top 10 countries:
1634 US
341 RU
290 IN
264 CA
203 CN
189 DE
171 FR
149 ES
133 UA
118 IT
The list of countries is quite long – it’s great to see such a variety!
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