Talk:Google Summer of Code

419 &times; $5,000 = $2.1 million? — Omegatron 01:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

boring facts
Why does this article bother about delay 1, 2, 3 which occured? The GSoC program generally runs smooth and nobody cares about a 1-day delay or if some application deadlines were extended -- that's not the stuff I want to read in an encyclopedia!

Better wipe out this rubbish. Also about the first GSoC there are detailed explanations about how GSoC projects were failures afterwards / died. It is unclear to the reader weather this changed the second time or not (there are some source online, for example from the mono project)..

duplicates?
"It took Google several hours to resolve the "dupes" (a term used by the Google staff to indicate a student who had been accepted by more than one organization). "

??? Who wants to read that? Twenty-one more words than necessary to say: "duplicates". In fact, the whole 2006 section reads more like a small town gossip section than an encyclopedia... 68.60.59.250 10:36, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Summer of Code
Yes, we did derive the name from the "Summer of Love" ... Given that myself and Chris *started* the program, I can authoritatively state that. But how do I cite that? Do I need to? Gstein 06:29, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * No original research. You could also be lying.--96.58.203.254 (talk) 01:20, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

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International
GSoC is claimed to be international, but the name alone shows a eurocentric disregard of internationalisation in that it is only summer for those north of the tropics. The 3 month "summer" program is not compatible with southern hemisphere semester schedules.

On the web site it is also claimed to be "a global program", but invitation is barred for students from US embargoed countries, so it is neither global nor world-wide.

Multinational..., I'd give it that.

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GSoC categories?
Would it at all make sense to have some sort of a category for GSoC? I'm thinking that perhaps it should be a collection of categories: organisations, projects, students and mentors? MureninC (talk) 05:08, 17 July 2019 (UTC)