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Google Summer of Code 2012 Stats - Part 2

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Re: Google Summer of Code 2012 Stats - Part 2

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Post by oldtimer1 »

splatterdash wrote: post #4
nphrk wrote: post #3

No US universities, I guess they can easily get way better paying internships.

How much are internships usually paid in the US? For some parts of the world (developing, especially) the GSoC stipend is ridiculously high.

Internships in the Us pays 3000 to 7000 per month vs Gsoc which pays 5000 for 3 months.

Re: Google Summer of Code 2012 Stats - Part 2

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Post by pthread »

nphrk wrote: post #3

No US universities, I guess they can easily get way better paying internships.

They probably also have better internships (paying aside). I've been 4 times in GSoC and what I can tell you is that as far as I'm concerned this is the most interesting thing I can do over the summer.

An internship here involves at best, some random module in some offshore product, at worst a "hello world" type project in $insert_whatever_technology_the_company_happens_to_use.

I love hacking on FLOSS and I'm not that interested in how much I'm payed (as long as it's decent), but there's no way I could find a job where I could work on FLOSS on a 400miles radius. I guess this explains why so many eastern europeans and indians.

I might be wrong but my feeling is that here in the EU there are few to none hacker-friendly jobs.

Re: Google Summer of Code 2012 Stats - Part 2

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Post by carb »

nphrk wrote: post #3

No US universities, I guess they can easily get way better paying internships.

Well maybe that's because I've never even heard of the Summer of Code until right now, and I would've applied had the deadline not already passed. I wish they accepted late application, I would love to do open-source work!

-MIT '14

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