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$3000 adjusted by country purchasing power, split into 45%/55% (mid-term and final evaluation) https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/student-stip

• jhgb 5y ago
  > adjusted by country purchasing power What's the reasoning behind such an uneconomical decision?
  • fooker 5y ago
    It wasn't like this when I participated (2013). ~5500 USD was the flat rate wherever you were from.
  • MatthewWilkes 5y ago
    I don't speak for Google, however I was involved in Summer of Code from the open source side when this decision was made. The reason given was that they were concerned that the amounts were having a disproportionate impact on some students, paying significantly more than the jobs it was meant to compete with to the extent that getting into Sumner of Code was one of the main objectives for students rather than a nice to have. I can tell you that when it was announced it was a very unpopular move with the mentoring organisations, where the strong feeling was that equal work deserves equal pay, but ultimately the decision for mentoring orgs is to participate or not, and the vast majority chose to participate.
• IceWreck 5y ago
  It was higher when I participated but still adjusted by country purchasing power. The duration was longer than last year and we had three evaluations instead of two.
• pzo 5y ago
  for anyone curious, for most countries adjustment goes down and that means $1500 for 3 months of work => $500/month, on top of that you will also have to pay tax.
• mciancia 5y ago
  Uh, that is pretty bad IMO, especially after adjustments. Afair it was much higher a few years ago...
  • david_allison 5y ago
    They halved the hours this year, which impacted the figure