Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 17th Feb 2007 18:42 UTC, submitted by ronaldst
"Google Summer of Code 2007 is on! Last year, Google funded over 600 students in 93 countries to work with 100 open source groups. We're extremely happy to announce that we'll be holding Google Summer of Code again this year. We look forward to helping new contributors join the community and write more code."
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There were articles on the results of the 2006 SoC. I'm not sure if there was a single page, but some results were even posted to OSNews:
http://osnews.com/story.php/12699/Googles-Summer-of-Code
My impression is that the majority of the projects don't get 100% completed during the allotted time, but that many of the participants continue working on them afterwards.
Regardless, Google is investing in the future of OSS, and they're doing so in a very effective way. They are spreading the wealth across a great variety of projects and doing their best to make sure that best candidates with the most meaningful ideas get funded.
Now, I'd argue that Google is making so much money on the back of the OSS community that they should be investing more, but that's just my personal opinion. I'm still waiting for Google to bring us a next-gen build system and hyper-linked source browser that integrates with Google Code. THAT would be a little much for an SoC project.