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> Doesn't this conflict with internship for students. That's an American thing. I wonder how many GsoC students are foreign.

908B64B197 5y ago
It's an American thing to have a summer internship? How else are you supposed to gain work experience? Part time throughout the year?
- Jensson 5y ago
  You don't need summer work experience to get a job. You just apply when you graduate.
  - 908B64B197 5y ago
    Is that the norm outside of America?
- xboxnolifes 5y ago
  Internships need not be during the summer. I took, and was expected to by my college, 2 semester breaks where I had internships (as well as 1 summer).
  - 908B64B197 5y ago
    Why not just do them during the summer and graduate faster? Less competition for winter internships I suppose.
    - xboxnolifes 5y ago
      Semesters were longer than summer break, so the intent was longer internships. Also, we were encouraged to take an internship that spanned over a summer + semester so there was enough time to get up to speed and do meaningful work. Plus, like you said, competition. There is a lot more available time for internships if you accept doing them outside of just June - August.
2143 5y ago
Google publishes statistics [1]. Some things I observed from a quick glance through it: - On most years there's about 1200-ish students from about 60-ish countries. - There's a disproportionate number of students from India, like far above other countries, even United States. I did my undergrad from India, and masters program from USA. (I'm now back in India working as a software developer). At my university in India, we had this sort of club for enthusiast programmers who would contribute to open source software after regular class hours. Each student would pick a major project and contribute to it. It was fun and we learnt a lot that way. Every year some members of this club would apply for gsoc (with the projects that they had already been contributing to during the months leading upto it), and about a dozen students used to get selected into the program. Participation in open source was something that was actively promoted there. I couldn't find anything similar during my time in USA, although I only have the data-point of a single US university. [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/stats https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/sta...

908B64B197 5y ago

It's an American thing to have a summer internship? How else are you supposed to gain work experience? Part time throughout the year?

Jensson 5y ago
You don't need summer work experience to get a job. You just apply when you graduate.
- 908B64B197 5y ago
  Is that the norm outside of America?
xboxnolifes 5y ago
Internships need not be during the summer. I took, and was expected to by my college, 2 semester breaks where I had internships (as well as 1 summer).
- 908B64B197 5y ago
  Why not just do them during the summer and graduate faster? Less competition for winter internships I suppose.
  - xboxnolifes 5y ago
    Semesters were longer than summer break, so the intent was longer internships. Also, we were encouraged to take an internship that spanned over a summer + semester so there was enough time to get up to speed and do meaningful work. Plus, like you said, competition. There is a lot more available time for internships if you accept doing them outside of just June - August.

2143 5y ago

Google publishes statistics [1]. Some things I observed from a quick glance through it: - On most years there's about 1200-ish students from about 60-ish countries. - There's a disproportionate number of students from India, like far above other countries, even United States. I did my undergrad from India, and masters program from USA. (I'm now back in India working as a software developer). At my university in India, we had this sort of club for enthusiast programmers who would contribute to open source software after regular class hours. Each student would pick a major project and contribute to it. It was fun and we learnt a lot that way. Every year some members of this club would apply for gsoc (with the projects that they had already been contributing to during the months leading upto it), and about a dozen students used to get selected into the program. Participation in open source was something that was actively promoted there. I couldn't find anything similar during my time in USA, although I only have the data-point of a single US university. [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/stats https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/resources/sta...