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 coun

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...