Call for Applications: Google Summer of Code for Students Worldwide 2024

Google Summer of Code is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC Contributors work with an open source organization on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors.

Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.

Students contact the mentor organizations they want to work with and write up a project proposal for the summer. If accepted, students spend a month or more integrating with their organizations prior to the start of coding. Students then have three months to code, meeting the deadlines agreed upon with their mentors.

• Table of Content
• About Google
• Google Summer of Code
• Aim and Benefits of Google Summer of Code
• Requirements for Google Summer of Code Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. The company's rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google's core se... continue reading

Google Summer of Code

Aim and Benefits of Google Summer of Code

• Accepted students spend the summer coding with guidance from a mentor (3 months).
• Successful student contributors are given a $6000 USD stipend,  enabling the student concentrate on coding for 3 months

Requirements for Google Summer of Code Qualification

To participate in the Program, a Student must:

1. Be eighteen (18) years of age or older upon registration for the Program;
2. Be enrolled in or accepted into an accredited institution, including a college, university, masters program, PhD program and/or undergraduate program, as of the Acceptance Date;
3. For the duration of the Program, be eligible to work in the country in which he or she resides; and
4. Not be an Organization Administrator or Mentor in the Program.

• Ineligible Individuals. A Student may not participate in the Program if:
  1. He or she is:
     1. a resident of a United States embargoed country;
     2. ordinarily resident in a United States embargoed country; or
     3. otherwise prohibited by applicable export controls and sanctions programs.
  2. He or she is an employee (including intern), contractor, officer, or director of:
     1. Google or its affiliates, or
     2. an Organization or any of its affiliates.
  3. He or she is an immediate family member (including a parent, sibling, child, spouse, or life partner regardless of where the Student lives) of one of the individuals listed in subsection (ii) above or a member of their household (whether related or not).
  4. He or she has participated as a Student in Google Summer of Code two (2) or more times previously.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details, visit Google website