Google is once again holding its Summer of Code, a project that pays student developers stipends for working on various open source software projects. This year’s list of accepted organizations and projects has just been posted, meaning prospective student developers have a few days to sharpen their ideas and mull over their opportunities before applications open up on March 23.
According to the Google Open Source blog, this year, Google accepted fewer organizations into the program in an effort to build larger, stronger student developer teams:
We’ve heard feedback from several organizations that having more students helped their mentees develop a greater sense of engagement with the community through their engagement with one another. Community engagement has long been cited as a critical success factor for Google Summer of Code, and we’re confident that creating these larger peer groups will help facilitate that.
Google says it was also a bit more discerning about the types of organizations accepted, “bidding fond farewell to some past participants in favor of bringing new projects into the program.” Still, open source stalwarts like the Apache Software Foundation and Creative Commons are participating.
The next step? Google recommends prospective student developers meet with potential mentors and try to formulate their ideas on ways to strengthen the code base. For more information, visit the 2009 Google Summer of Code homepage.
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