Monday, 11 May 2015
CHUKWUKA EMEKA CHERISH at 13:15
UNN Student to represent Nigeria in the 2015
Google Summer of Code
University of Nigeria, Nsukka Student to
represent Nigeria in the 2015 Google Summer of
Code
Google Summer of Code is a program that offers
student developers stipends to write code for
various open source projects for top technology
companies like Google, Mozilla, Encyclopedia of
Life, etc.
Through Google Summer of Code, accepted
students work with the organization he/she is
accepted into for a period of 12 weeks.
Ilo Calistus, a UNN Google Student Ambassador
and a final year student of the department of
Computer Science, was selected as the only
student from Nigeria to contribute to the 55
million lines of code which has been written so
far. He will be working for Syster, an Anita Borg
Institute based in United States to develop an
Android App for Peace Corp volunteers.
Since its inception in 2005, Google Summer of
Code has brought together over 8,500 successful
student participants from 101 countries and over
8,300 mentors from over 109 countries
worldwide to produce over 50 million lines of
code.
Through Google Summer of Code , accepted
student applicants are paired with a mentor or
mentors from the participating projects, thus
gaining exposure to real-world software
development scenarios and the opportunity
for employment in areas related to their
academic pursuits.
In turn, the participating projects are able to
more easily identify and bring in new
developers. Best of all, more source code
is created and released for the use and benefit
of all.
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