Every year around this time — just after students are accepted into Google Summer of Code (GSoC) — we at the Open Source Programs Office get a ton of questions like, “How many students from my country were accepted?”, “Am I the only undergraduate?”, “How many women are participating in GSoC this year?” and so on. Once we have a chance to crunch the numbers, we can use the statistics to answer at least some of these questions for you.
For this first post, we’ll start with “What countries are the accepted students from?” and “How many students were accepted from “X” country?” In years past we’ve listed the 10+ countries with the largest number of accepted students, but this year we’re going to share the whole list.
Here we go! In alphabetical order:
Algeria
1
Argentina
9
Armenia
1
Austria
21
Azerbaijan
1
Bangladesh
1
Belarus
2
Belgium
7
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1
Brazil
21
Bulgaria
6
Cameroon
3
Canada
37
Chile
1
China
48
Colombia
2
Croatia
3
Czech Republic
8
Denmark
1
Egypt
6
Estonia
2
Ethiopia
1
Finland
7
France
28
Georgia
1
Germany
78
Greece
13
Guatemala
1
Honduras
1
Hong Kong
2
Hungary
21
India
401
Ireland
4
Italy
31
Japan
6
Kazakhstan
3
Kenya
3
Latvia
1
Lithuania
3
Luxembourg
2
Malawi
1
Malaysia
2
Mexico
1
Moldavia
3
Netherlands
13
New Zealand
2
Nigeria
1
Norway
1
Pakistan
3
Paraguay
1
Peru
4
Philippines
2
Poland
40
Portugal
9
Romania
36
Russian Federation
51
Saudi Arabia
3
Serbia
5
Singapore
14
Slovak Republic
4
Slovenia
4
South Korea
5
Spain
32
Sri Lanka
54
Sweden
4
Switzerland
5
Taiwan
2
Turkey
9
Uganda
1
Ukraine
13
United Kingdom
29
United States
161
Vietnam
3
TOTAL
1307
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, five countries are highlighted in blue. This is the first year that students from Ethiopia, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda have been accepted. We are very pleased to welcome them to the GSoC family!
We will be doing additional posts about the statistics for GSoC 2014 in the next few weeks. If you have questions, please drop us a comment and we’ll do what we can to answer in an upcoming post.
By Cat Allman, Open Source Programs