Published on 2006-05-27 21:31:08

Google summer of Code is one of the events that the company started last year with 410 projects accepted, and continued this year with 630 projects ! The investment increased from $2.05 million dollars last year to $3.15 million dollars this year, so with an additional $1.1 million dollars which could reflect that Google have monitored with the last year's event.

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This year there is over 102 mentoring organizations, including Google itself compared to last year where there were only 41 mentoring organizations. The system didn't change, there is $5,000 overall per project, $500 goes to the mentoring organization and $4,500 goes to the student. An important event which involve students, open source software and Google.

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