"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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Member since:2006-03-12
Most of the projects that get selected are either too big to be completed, such as the FreeBSD attempt at reworking launchd as a replacement startup system, or so small they should not have been accepted, such as FreeBSD's update to it's website.
Most of the attempts at creating filesystems progressed, but didn't get halfway there. The BSD SNMPD implementation got most of the way there when it was a SoC, but never completed, same with CSup, the C reimplementation of CVSup (and CSup had already existed prior to the SoC).
While a final report would have been nice, if you cared about any one project, the mentoring organizations almost all kept status pages, so it was not needed. A report of all the projects' results would have been big.
Edited 2007-02-17 21:00
Member since:2005-07-08
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.
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2005-11-11
Seem like as the SOC draws nearer we get a lot of articles listing the awesome sounding projects that will be part of the SOC. While previews are nice, I'd love to see an article when it's all over listing how much actually got done. I have no idea how it turned out the previous two years, aside from individual projects I may have tracked down myself. A brief rundown of the results of the project afterwards would not be amiss.