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No US universities, I guess they can easily get way better paying internships.
by nphrk 14y ago
No US universities, I guess they can easily get way better paying internships.
- splatterdash 14y agoHow much are internships usually paid in the US? For some parts of the world (developing, especially) the GSoC stipend is ridiculously high.
- oldtimer1 14y agoInternships in the Us pays 3000 to 7000 per month vs Gsoc which pays 5000 for 3 months.
- alanfang 14y agoThat's high, many internships are min wage or even unpaid.
- mgse 14y agoI believe the MECOP program at Oregon State sets a floor of $16. 40 hours a week * 4 weeks gives you $2560. I've been told almost all get more which is good because that seems quite low.
- texec 14y ago14% of the participants are from the United States (second highest after India): http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2012/05/google-summer-of-code-2012-by-numbers.html http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2012/05/google-summer-o...
- tallowen 14y agoUniversity of Toronto is there - I would imagine Canadian students have similar internship opportunities.
- pthread 14y agoThey 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.
- carb 14y agoWell 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
- vgnet 14y agoRead about it and spread the word: http://www.google-melange.com/ http://www.google-melange.com/ :)
- carb 14y agoYeah, I feel like there's no way they'll accept a late application a month and half late. Rough. Do you think there were any drop-outs that left an open spot? I think I could catch up to speed with the rest of the students quickly, they haven't really done actual work yet.