The Google Summer of Code, often abbreviated to GSoC, is an international annual program in which Google awards stipends to contributors who successfully complete a free and open-source software coding project during the summer.

[2] Participants get paid to write software,[3] with the amount of their stipend depending on the purchasing power parity of the country where they are located.

The idea for the Summer of Code came directly from Google's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

If accepted, each organization provides a list of initial project ideas and invites contributors to their development communities.

Contributors who meet the eligibility criteria then submit up to 3 proposals that detail the software-coding projects that interest them.

Finally, organizations select the top proposals to fill their slots and Google verifies eligibility before announcing accepted contributors.

[2] Many projects were continued past summer, even though the SOC period was over, and some changed direction as they developed.

Despite these criticisms there were 41 organizations involved,[2] including FreeBSD, Apache, KDE, Ubuntu, Blender, Mozdev, and Google itself.

According to a blog post by Chris DiBona, Google's open source program manager, "something like 30 percent of the students stuck with their groups past SoC [Summer of Code]."

Although the results were to be declared by 5:00 PM PDT, there was considerable delay in publishing it as Google had not expected several students to be selected in more than one organization.

At 3:38 AM PDT, Chris DiBona posted an apology to the official mailing list, adding that "We're very deeply sorry for this.

Google has released a final list of projects accepted into the program on the SoC website.

The proposals themselves were visible to the public for a few hours, after which they were taken down in response to complaints by the participants about the "sensitive and private" information that their applications contained.

[13] On April 11, the acceptance letters were delayed due to additional efforts involved in resolving duplicate submissions.

[citation needed] In 2008, Google chose 174 open source organizations to participate in Summer of Code, greatly increased from 131 the year before and 102 in 2006.

University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka secured first position in 2011's program with 27 accepted students.

[26] For the first time since inception, the highest number of GSoC participants came from India (227) followed by the USA (173) and Germany (72).

[27] The University of Moratuwa continued its dominance with 29 selections, followed by Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology leading from India at 3rd rank.

[30] On April 8, 2013, Google announced that 177 open source projects and organizations would take part that year.

[34] On April 21, 2014, Google announced that 190 open source projects and organizations would take part that year.

[35] The 2014 edition was the first time for students from Ethiopia, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda have been accepted to this program.