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Google Summer of Code 2020

Google Summer of Code 2020

52°North welcomes students participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code

52°North is pleased to announce that we will mentor three students for Google Summer of Code 2020! The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for Open Source projects. During their break from university, the students work on a 3 month programming project. This year, 199 mentoring organizations reviewed 8,902 applications—submitted by 6,626 students from 121 countries— and selected 1,199 students from 66 countries.

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Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization

Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization

52°North selected as Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization

For its 9th year in a row, 52°North has been chosen as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code 2020! The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for Open Source projects.

Students who have been accepted are paired with 52°North mentors, thus gaining valuable exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, 52°North is able to more easily identify and draw in new developers, as well as improve or extend software projects.

52°North has a number of project ideas. The overall goals are to improve usability of products and to extend the user base to new domains. Students interested in writing code can find more information at at our GSoC page. Student Application opens open March 16, 2020.

Contact Arne de Wall () and Benjamin Pross ()

 

Google Summer of Code 2019

Google Summer of Code 2019

52°North welcomes students participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code

52°North is pleased to announce that we will mentor three students for Google Summer of Code 2019! The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers students stipends to write code for Open Source projects. During their break from university, the students work on a 3 month programming project. This year, Google has funded 1276 student projects for 206 open source organizations.

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