Q&A. Does the Google Summer of Code project provide any value to open source projects and the students who participate?

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A. While the amount of value will vary between the open source projects who participate, I can provide statistics for the FreeBSD project. When the Fourth Annual Google Summer of Code (SoC) was announced, it got me wondering about the 58 students that participated with the FreeBSD project for SoC for the years 2005, 2006, and 2007. I sent out an email to find out what they're currently up to and was pleasantly surprised by the breadth of the responses. From pursuing grad school and even post-docs, to founding start-ups, or working in established industry companies (Oracle, Cisco, Google), our SoC students have pursued a variety of paths since completing their projects.