Coding has begun for Google Summer of Code 2016

Today marks the start of coding for the 12th annual Google Summer of Code. With the community bonding period complete, about 1,200 students now begin 12 weeks of writing code for 178 different open source organizations.

We are excited to see the contributions this year’s students will make to the open source community. 

For more information on important dates for the program please visit our timeline. Stay tuned as we will highlight some of the new mentoring organizations over the next few months.

Have a great summer and happy coding!

By Josh Simmons, Open Source Programs Office

Google Summer of Code 2016 statistics: Part one

We share statistics from Google Summer of Code (GSoC) every year — now that 2016 is chugging along we’ve got some exciting numbers to share! 1,206 students from all over the globe are currently in the community bonding period, a time where participants learn more about the organization they will be contributing to before coding officially begins on May 23. This includes becoming familiar with the community practices and processes, setting up a development environment, or contributing small (or large) patches and bug fixes.

We’ll start our statistics reporting this year with the total number of students participating from each country:

Country	Accepted Students	Country	Accepted Students	Country	Accepted Students
Albania	1	Greece	10	Romania	31
Algeria	1	Guatemala	1	Russian Federation	52
Argentina	3	Hong Kong	2	Serbia	2
Armenia	3	Hungary	7	Singapore	7
Australia	6	India	454	Slovak Republic	3
Austria	19	Ireland	3	Slovenia	4
Belarus	5	Israel	2	South Africa	2
Belgium	5	Italy	23	South Korea	6
Bosnia-Herzegovina	1	Japan	12	Spain	33
Brazil	21	Kazakhstan	2	Sri Lanka	54
Bulgaria	2	Kenya	3	Sweden	5
Cambodia	1	Latvia	3	Switzerland	2
Cameroon	16	Lithuania	1	Taiwan	7
Canada	23	Luxembourg	1	Thailand	1
China	34	Macedonia	1	Turkey	12
Croatia	2	Mexico	2	Ukraine	13
Czech Republic	6	Netherlands	9	United Kingdom	18
Denmark	2	New Zealand	2	United States	118
Egypt	10	Pakistan	4	Uruguay	1
Estonia	1	Paraguay	1	Venezuela	1
Finland	3	Philippines	2	Vietnam	4