Summer of Taste April 12, 2007
Posted by Andre Vellino in Open Source.add a comment
The final results on Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) projects were announced this morning. There were 6,200 applicants to GSoC and 900 of them were selected (~ 15% acceptance rate.) The Taste collaborative filtering project received 13 applications and Google selected 2 of them – one for each mentor (also ~ 15% acceptance rate).
I keep marveling at how brilliantly Machiavellian (meant in the best sense of this adjective) this GSoC idea is. It’s costing (I’m guessing) a mere $6M (a few months worth of Coca-Cola supplies?) for Google to (a) benefit the open source community (b) give hands-on software training to almost 1,000 students (c) get a helping hand from the community to help Google recruit the best and the brightest in international software talent. Everybody wins. It’s brilliant.
