Google announced the 9th "release" of Summer Of Code

As one would expect, Google announced the next stage of the Summer Of Code program, in which students from any country in the world can participate. On Habré, this program was already described in some detail, and it’s very detailed, so it’s worth remembering only the main elements (under the cut). By the way, about 6 thousand students from 100 countries took part in the previous 8 stages. The new stage starts on April 22 of this year, then it will be possible to apply for participation.

As for the program itself, it is designed to select the best open source projects. Projects are students themselves. The best applications are selected by company representatives, and the authors of this program participate in the program. For 3 summer months, the author receives about 5 thousand US dollars, plus the project manager, if there is one, also receives a reward of 500 US dollars.
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The conditions for participation are fairly simple; last year these conditions were as follows:

- the participant must be a student (or graduate student) at the time of the announcement of the accepted participants, i.e. it is possible that by the end of the project the participant is no longer a student;
- besides this, the participant must be at least 18 years old.

And yes, an updated FAQ on this year’s program is available here , so if you are interested in participating, be sure to check out.

Via googledevelopers