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It’s Kind of Ironic

April 4th, 2009

With Google Summer of Code 2009 in full swing, I got curious: how many people have come from what schools since the program started in 2005?  (I also needed something to distract me from my cold.)  Turns out to be harder to find out than I expected—a lot harder.  The only consolidated public data I can find on past offerings is the KML map files linking mentors to students.  Unfortunately, those don’t specify what schools the students are from, and there are enough inconsistencies in their formatting that I’d have to do a lot of hand-tweaking to extract even organization-project-mentor-student data.  Kind of ironic…

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  1. Cat Allman
    April 4th, 2009 at 19:37 | #1
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    Hi,

    We just published a spreadsheet with a bunch of exactly this kind of data. Check out the stats at http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-summer-of-code-by-numbers.html

    Enjoy.

    Cat

    Google

  2. Greg Wilson
    April 4th, 2009 at 19:59 | #2
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    Thanks, Cat, I saw it — it’s what prompted my digging. According to that spreadsheet, there were 7 U of Toronto students in 2005 and 9 in 2006, which is more than triple the number we know about. Any chance of per-project breakdown?

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