Nattfodd writes "Almost two months after the projects, deadline, partial (but fairly complete) results of Google Summer of Code are here. The completion rate of projects (and thus payment of the students) was approximately 90%, which would certainly qualify for a 'huge success' of the operation. Summer of Code paid more than 400 students of 49 countries to spend their summer helping open-source projects, 4500$ on completion. Now we just have to wait for the T-shirts..."Ads_xl=0;Ads_yl=0;Ads_xp='';Ads_yp='';Ads_xp1='';Ads_yp1='';Ads_par='';Ads_cnturl='';Ads_prf='page=article';Ads_channels='RON_P6_IMU';Ads_wrd='google,programming';Ads_kid=0;Ads_bid=0;Ads_sec=0; Google Summer of Code Results Log in/Create an Account | Top | 172 comments | Search Discussion Display Options Threshold: -1: 172 comments 0: 162 comments 1: 131 comments 2: 85 comments 3: 27 comments 4: 17 comments 5: 14 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. Nice idea, poor pay (Score:5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25, @05:23PM (#13875579) Its a nice thing for Google to try to do, but who were they really targeting at that pay range? A decent summer internship in CS pays 2-4 times that much. [ Reply to This Re:Nice idea, poor pay (Score:5, Funny) by eln (21727) on Tuesday October 25, @05:26PM (#13875618) People on scholarships. Do you have any idea how much weed you can buy for $4500? [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Nice idea, poor pay by TheRealMindChild (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:52PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by king-manic (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @06:02PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by BigBuckHunter (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @11:37PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by chucks86 (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @10:23PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Nice idea, poor pay by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:54PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by Widowwolf (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @06:13PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.3 replies beneath your current threshold. Re:Nice idea, poor pay (Score:5, Insightful) by Jussi K. Kojootti (646145) on Tuesday October 25, @05:44PM (#13875821) Did you consider that the internet, and this program, are accessible also from outside of your country? [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Nice idea, poor pay by mentus (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @09:04PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by Aenema (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @09:16PM Re:Nice idea, poor pay (Score:5, Insightful) by iambarry (134796) on Tuesday October 25, @05:53PM (#13875937) (http://www.testcompany.com/) Who says that many of those who participated in summer of code didn't also have summer CS ineternships?--Barry [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Nice idea, poor pay by Breakfast Pants (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @10:05PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by Cornflake917 (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:54PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by jzeejunk (Score:3) Tuesday October 25, @05:58PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by moo083 (Score:3) Tuesday October 25, @06:07PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Nice idea, poor pay by mattwarden (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:59PMPay is about right by Sdoh (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @07:16PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by Mistshadow2k4 (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @07:57PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by Breakfast Pants (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @09:57PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by abscondment (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:01PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by st1d (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:14PMRe:Nice idea, poor pay by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @06:42PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.1 reply beneath your current threshold. Recognition (Score:2) by totallygeek (263191) on Tuesday October 25, @05:24PM (#13875589) (http://www.vle.org/vle) How are these programmers immortalized? I mean, beyond placing that on a resume. Does Google use this as a sort of co-op system for hiring future talent? [ Reply to ThisRe:Recognition by tygerstripes (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:28PMRe:Recognition by k98sven (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:39PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. No VB? (Score:5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25, @05:25PM (#13875594) They didn't accept my VB entry?! [ Reply to ThisRe:No VB? by tomhudson (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:37PMRe:No VB? by ces (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @10:29PM How about a winter of code? (Score:2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25, @05:25PM (#13875598) That was sucessful. Lets follow it up with a winter of code, and give the OSS world a christmas present [ Reply to ThisRe:How about a winter of code? by generic-man (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:59PMRe:How about a winter of code? by i_should_be_working (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:05PMRe:How about a winter of code? by joebutton (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @08:21PMRe:How about a winter of code? by a-singularity (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @07:34PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Sir! Sir! (Score:1) by tygerstripes (832644) on Tuesday October 25, @05:25PM (#13875604) Is 400 bigger than a Google? [ Reply to This dollars (Score:3, Funny) by termos (634980) on Tuesday October 25, @05:26PM (#13875620) (http://termos.devcave.net/) $4500.No problem. [ Reply to This Good idea! (Score:5, Funny) by Mysticalfruit (533341) on Tuesday October 25, @05:27PM (#13875626) (Last Journal: Thursday December 16, @01:32PM) Get the next iteration of programmers comfortable with their tools and API's.I'm suspecting the future is going to smell like AJAX...Also, while barely literate, I'm pretty sure that dollar sign goes before the ammount... [ Reply to ThisRe:Good idea! by Bubble666 (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:33PMRe:Good idea! by tomhudson (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:52PMRe:Good idea! by Pneuma ROCKS (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @07:24PMRe:Good idea! by vinlud (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @09:51PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. So much publicity and all you win is... (Score:3, Funny) by TarrySingh (916400) on Tuesday October 25, @05:27PM (#13875627) (http://tarrysingh.blogspot.com/) 4500$!...geez! [ Reply to This Other Results: (Score:1, Troll) by Quaoar (614366) on Tuesday October 25, @05:27PM (#13875633) Percentage of summer of code participants getting laid: 0% [ Reply to ThisRe:Other Results: by Sj0 (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @08:33PM3 replies beneath your current threshold. Interesting Demographics (Score:4, Insightful) by mikesmind (689651) on Tuesday October 25, @05:28PM (#13875642) (http://www.closetojesus.org/) I scanned through the list and am intrigued by the demographics. I was surprised that there weren't a few more women. I always knew that programming was dominated by men, but I didn't realize it would be that far skewed. The shop I work in is primarily COBOL and we have a good percentage of women working here. Perhaps that skewed my perception. [ Reply to ThisRe:Interesting Demographics by eln (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:35PMRe:Interesting Demographics by mikesmind (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:43PMRe:Interesting Demographics by Cornflake917 (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @06:21PM Re:Interesting Demographics (Score:5, Interesting) by university chica (729309) on Tuesday October 25, @05:42PM (#13875798) I'm a senior in computer science at a university that has a total of 17000 students. I'm also the only female student in my graduating class.Conservatively, I'd say there are maybe 7 other female students in CS who've made it to their junior year. CS loses 99% of female students, and it's half way through the semester, so we may have lost a couple more. For a little perspective... there are over 100 guys in their junior or senior year.I don't understand it. I mean, who wouldn't want to spend their entire scholastic career surrounded by a collection of the geekiest men the university has to offer? [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Interesting Demographics by dptalia (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:47PMRe:Interesting Demographics by Breakfast Pants (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @10:11PMRe:Interesting Demographics by Elwood P Dowd (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @08:11PMRe:Interesting Demographics by malsdavis (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @09:27PMRe:Interesting Demographics by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @11:03PMRe:Interesting Demographics by Fancia (Score:2) Wednesday October 26, @12:42AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.I'm a woman in CS by dptalia (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:44PMRe:I'm a woman in CS by Tiger4 (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:42PMRe:I'm a woman in CS by Lifewish (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @07:36PMRe:Interesting Demographics by HawkingMattress (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:10PMRe:Interesting Demographics by Kaylya (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @06:14PMRe:Interesting Demographics by publius_ovidius (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @08:24PMFrom a woman in engineering... by icefaerie (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @09:22PM Man look at the names (Score:4, Funny) by Anonymous Crowhead (577505) on Tuesday October 25, @05:31PM (#13875679) It's like a "Who's Who" list of who's not American. [ Reply to ThisRe:Man look at the names by MemoryDragon (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:50PMRe:Man look at the names by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @06:41PMRe:Man look at the names by johansalk (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @08:58PMRe:Man look at the names by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @09:37PMRe:Man look at the names by Suhas (Score:2) Wednesday October 26, @12:34AM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Google pays MCDONALD'S wages (Score:5, Interesting) by Work Account (900793) on Tuesday October 25, @05:31PM (#13875681) (Last Journal: Tuesday October 25, @12:18AM) $4500 for a summer of work ->Summer = 12 weeks1 work week = 40 hoursTotal = 480 hours per summerBEFORE taxes, this is $9.30 / hour.I can make more at McDonald's especially considering meals are discounted 75%. [ Reply to ThisRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by mrpotato (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:38PMSome got paid considerably LESS than $9.30/hour by Work Account (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:43PMRe:Some got paid considerably LESS than $9.30/hour by kertong (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:48PMRe:Some got paid considerably LESS than $9.30/hour by eoyount (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:49PM Re:Some got paid considerably LESS than $9.30/hour (Score:5, Insightful) by kebes (861706) on Tuesday October 25, @05:53PM (#13875940) Math may not lie, but people can misrepresent what's going on.Google didn't pay these people anything. Rather, it provided grants/scholarships to people interested in working on open source code. People (coders and/or organizations) submitted proposals for ideas they wanted to work on, and Google selected some worthy ones that they would give extra money to, so as to encourage students to spend time doing some open-source coding.Google was not hiring these people to work on specific projects that get added to the portfolio of Google products. Everyone involved could have turned down the grant money if they had a better offer. But for these students, who would have likely worked on these (or other) open-source projects over the summer anyway (to bolster their CV and/or because it's fun), the grant was probably a welcome bonus.Everyone benefits from the open-source software that has been produced by these (partially funded) volunteers. Remember that the people working on these projects were contributing to open-source projects that are, by and large, non-commercial. That is, the summer-of-code people got $4500, whereas everyone else working on the project got $0. They are doing it because they want to. It is not a (traditional) job. [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Some got paid considerably LESS than $9.30/hour by Antonymous Flower (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @07:03PMRe:Some got paid considerably LESS than $9.30/hour by Cornflake917 (Score:3) Tuesday October 25, @06:15PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by kertong (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:38PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Re:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages (Score:4, Funny) by schon (31600) on Tuesday October 25, @05:42PM (#13875803) (http://slashdot.org/) I can make more at McDonald'sWow, McDonalds is hiring coders?especially considering meals are discounted 75%.Yeah, but the downside is that it's McDonalds "food". [ Reply to This | ParentYour logic is horrendous by Work Account (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @05:52PMYour analogy is horrible by schon (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:05PMRe:Your logic is horrendous by FLAGGR (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:16PMRe:Your logic is horrendous by miyako (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:23PMRe:Your logic is horrendous by lordofthechia (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @09:28PMRe:Your logic is horrendous by Cornflake917 (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @06:32PMRe:Your logic is horrendous by stor (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @08:09PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by ameoba (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:50PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by Cruciform (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @05:59PM Re:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages (Score:5, Insightful) by Beatbyte (163694) on Tuesday October 25, @06:00PM (#13876012) (http://www.hooklinesinker.org/) How much would you sacrifice to get experience, build your reputation, and have Google on your resume? [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by LeonGeeste (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @06:22PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by SillyNickName4me (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @08:30PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by LeonGeeste (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @08:41PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by johansalk (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @08:53PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by LeonGeeste (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @09:02PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by be-fan (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @11:49PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by SillyNickName4me (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @09:25PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by LeonGeeste (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @09:38PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by SillyNickName4me (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @09:58PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by johansalk (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @10:05PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by SillyNickName4me (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @09:14PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by LeonGeeste (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @09:30PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by SillyNickName4me (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @10:15PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by Myko (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @06:09PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by HavokDevNull (Score:3) Tuesday October 25, @06:13PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by pherthyl (Score:3) Tuesday October 25, @06:13PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by mattwarden (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @07:05PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by a-singularity (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @07:29PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by kbahey (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @08:45PMRe:Google pays MCDONALD'S wages by Breakfast Pants (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @10:07PM2 replies beneath your current threshold. Hmmm, interesting projects (Score:5, Interesting) by totallygeek (263191) on Tuesday October 25, @05:35PM (#13875733) (http://www.vle.org/vle) Ivan Barrera A, Chile: Bandwidth Limiter For Apache - When a user starts downloading something, the data goes through the mod. If there is a bandwidth limit, then the mod will start "splitting" the data into smaller pieces. Then it will start sending each piece with a small delay (less than 1 sec) between each piece, thus, reducing the speed the user downloads. This is useful for small web-hosting servers with limited outbound bandwidth (i.e. ADSLs customers). I don't even have that limited of bandwidth and I would like to see this mod in production. Very needed code IMHO. csaba, Hungary - Fuse / BSD / Network mount via SSH This is what I have been waiting for since the dawn of time. Well, not that long, but I have always wondered when I would be able to mount remote file systems via secure shell. [ Reply to This Re:Hmmm, interesting projects (Score:5, Informative) by harryk (17509) <harryk20022002NO@SPAMyahoo.com> on Tuesday October 25, @05:59PM (#13875999) (http://harryksworld.blogspot.com/) Secure Shell file system mount has been available as a module for some time. ssh_fs.o I think, or something, but it works sufficiently enough.the project is here: http://shfs.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]enjoy...harryk [ Reply to This | ParentRe:Hmmm, interesting projects by aliens (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:09PMRe:Hmmm, interesting projects by mindtriggerz (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @08:36PMRe:Hmmm, interesting projects by tyler_larson (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:33PMRe:Hmmm, interesting projects by hackstraw (Score:3) Tuesday October 25, @06:43PMRe:Hmmm, interesting projects by david.given (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @07:16PMRe:Hmmm, interesting projects by Breakfast Pants (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @09:38PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Other MozDev projects: (Score:5, Informative) by MTO_B. (814477) on Tuesday October 25, @05:38PM (#13875759) (http://www.tupoliza.com/) The list of projects says "Please note that this page contains a sampling and not a complete listing of the projects done as part of the Summer of Code." The MozDev (related to Mozilla / Firefox) projects missing from the list are:- Cockatoo: SIP phone extension for Mozilla Thunderbirdhttp://cockatoo.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org] - Firepuddle: BitTorrent P2P for Mozillahttp://firepuddle.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org] - Event Loger (An advanced macro and testcase creation tool for Firefox)http://eventlogger.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org] - Muzzled: graphical theme builder for mozillahttp://muzzled.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org] - Vietnamese translation of Firefoxhttp://vi.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org] [ Reply to ThisRe:Other MozDev projects: by mattwarden (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @07:13PM What about a "Winter of Code"? (Score:1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25, @05:39PM (#13875776) Suggestions:- Google Talk voice support for Linux;- Google Earth for Linux;- Google office suite for Linux, er, for web;- Google Desktop for Linux;Well, actually, this could be hard... differences among Linux versions, among desktop environments, yada, yada, yada...So, first: what about a common installation utility to (humbly and initially) work only in Gnome, KDE and XFCE -- with specific plug-ins in each environment to carry out the lowly details?DISCLAIMER: my personal opinions, not my employer's. [ Reply to ThisRe:What about a "Winter of Code"? by EvilSporkMan (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @06:52PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.google earth is supposedly being ported for linux by PhiberOptix (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @07:14PM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:What about a "Winter of Code"? by Breakfast Pants (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @10:15PM T-Shirts? (Score:5, Funny) by The Rizz (1319) on Tuesday October 25, @06:00PM (#13876005) "Now we just have to wait for the T-shirts...""I coded open-source software all summer, and all I got was $4500 and this lousy T-shirt" ?? [ Reply to ThisRe:T-Shirts? by arrow014 (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @06:52PMRe:T-Shirts? by Pneuma ROCKS (Score:1) Tuesday October 25, @07:27PM mod_smtpd (?) (Score:3, Funny) by pergamon (4359) on Tuesday October 25, @06:11PM (#13876093) (http://moore.cx/dan) So I noticed mod_smtpd [apache.org] in there.Is there some corollary to the well known quote like "Every daemon attempts to expand until it can schlep mail" that I'm not aware of? [ Reply to ThisRe:mod_smtpd (?) by Matts (Score:2) Tuesday October 25, @08:16PM Southern Hemisphere Summer (Score:2, Insightful) by paul.schulz (75696) on Tuesday October 25, @07:57PM (#13876902) (http://news.mawsonlakes.org/~paul)