3. What are the goals of the program ?

4. How does GSoC work ?

5. Participating projects

6. Google Summer of Code timeline

7. Student stipends

11. Provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their studies during the summer

12. Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette, etc.)

13. Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all

16. “ Flip bits not burgers” during summer holidays

21. Hardware Management

22. Databases

23. Programming Languages, Libraries & Compilers

24. Code Design, Development & Management

25. Internet & Networks

26. Video, TV & Photography

29. Google allocates a given number of slots to each organization, the students work all summer on their project in close mentored collaboration with that organization

32. August 26 : Final evaluation deadline.

48. http://www.google- melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2011