Students announced for Google Summer of Code 2016

It's that time of year again: 1,206 students have been accepted for our 2016 Google Summer of Code! Congratulations all around. We want to thank everyone who applied — it was another competitive year with 178 mentoring organizations receiving 7,543 proposals from 5,107 students.

Now we enter the community bonding period when students get acquainted with their mentors and familiarize themselves with their new community before they begin coding in May. In this period, students will do things like hang out in IRC channels and read documentation, become familiar with the code base and set their deadlines and milestones with their mentors.

If you want to review important dates or learn more about the 178 organizations that the accepted students will be working with over the summer, please visit the program website.

Here's to another exciting and productive summer of contributing to open source.

By Josh Simmons, Open Source Programs Office

CCTZ v2.0 — now with more civil time

Last September we announced an open source project called CCTZ, a C++ library that enables computing with arbitrary time zones. Today we're announcing CCTZ v2.0 which introduces a new civil time library. Civil time is a legally recognized representation of time used by humans (i.e., year, month, day, hour, minute and second). The most common example of a civil time is a time zone independent date. In version 2.0, CCTZ's time zone and new civil time libraries cooperate with the standard C++ <chrono> library to give programmers a complete (and simple!) framework in which to reason about and solve even the most complicated time programming problems.

To learn more, please check out the project page on GitHub. Pay particular attention to the fundamental concepts section which establishes a simple, cross-platform and language agnostic mental model that will help you reason about time programming challenges with ease and confidence. And don't forget to subscribe to the new CCTZ mailing list to ask questions and learn about future announcements.

by Greg Miller and Bradley White, Google Engineering

Google Summer of Code marches on!

Google Summer of Code 2016 (GSoC) is well underway and we’ve already seen some impressive numbers — all record highs!

• 18,981 total registered students (up 36% from 2015)
• 17.34% female registrants
• 142 countries
• 5107 students submitting  7,543 project proposals

Student proposals are currently being reviewed by over 2300 mentors and organization administrators from the 180 participating mentor organizations. We will announce accepted students on April 22, 2016 on the Open Source blog and on the program site.

Last week, members of the Google Open Source Programs team attended FOSSASIA in Singapore, Asia’s premier open technology event, to talk about GSoC and Google Code-in. There, we met dozens of former GSoC and GCI students and mentors who were excited to embark on another great year. To learn more about Google Summer of Code, please visit our program site.

By Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs