
Google coders India rank By Asha
Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. Google will provide a stipend of 5500 USD per accepted student developer, of which 5000 USD goes to the student and 500 USD goes to the mentoring organization. Once all the code is created, it is handed over to the open source community.
Google has published statistics for this year’s Summer of Code. And India has moved up to the No. 2 spot after America
“ For this year’s program we received 5,651 applications from 3,731 students in 97 countries.
We accepted 1,115 students from 68 countries. The ten countries with the highest number of accepted students are represented in the pie chart above “ (5/23/2011) |