[nphrk]

No US universities, I guess they can easily get way better paying internships.

[texec]

14% of the participants are from the United States (second highest after India):

http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2012/05/google-summer-o...

[carb]

Well maybe that's because I've never even heard of the Summer of Code until right now, and I would've applied had the deadline not already passed. I wish they accepted late application, I would love to do open-source work!

-MIT '14

[vgnet]

Read about it and spread the word: http://www.google-melange.com/ :)

[splatterdash]

How much are internships usually paid in the US? For some parts of the world (developing, especially) the GSoC stipend is ridiculously high.

[oldtimer1]

Internships in the Us pays 3000 to 7000 per month vs Gsoc which pays 5000 for 3 months.

[mgse]

I believe the MECOP program at Oregon State sets a floor of $16. 40 hours a week * 4 weeks gives you $2560.

I've been told almost all get more which is good because that seems quite low.

[tallowen]

University of Toronto is there - I would imagine Canadian students have similar internship opportunities.

[pthread]

They probably also have better internships (paying aside). I've been 4 times in GSoC and what I can tell you is that as far as I'm concerned this is the most interesting thing I can do over the summer.

An internship here involves at best, some random module in some offshore product, at worst a "hello world" type project in $insert_whatever_technology_the_company_happens_to_use.

I love hacking on FLOSS and I'm not that interested in how much I'm payed (as long as it's decent), but there's no way I could find a job where I could work on FLOSS on a 400miles radius. I guess this explains why so many eastern europeans and indians.

I might be wrong but my feeling is that here in the EU there are few to none hacker-friendly jobs.