Google announced About the annual event “ Google Summer of Code 2022 ” (GSOC) aimed at stimulating the work of newcomers over open projects. The event is held within the seventeenth time, but differs from past programs with restrictions on the participation of only students and graduate students. From now on, a member of GSOC can be any adult man who has been 18 years old, but with Condition that earlier it is not Imagined a significant contribution to the development of projects outside the GSOC event and did not participate in GSOC more than two times. It is understood that the event can now help beginners who wish to change the area of activity or self-education.
also changed the schedule of the event – instead of a fixed 12-week cycle, the participant is provided to 22 weeks. The program is also allowed not only the mid-level tasks, which requires about 175 hours and large projects that require about 350 hours to implement.
In previous years, 18 thousand students from 112 countries have successfully coped with the fulfillment of the tasks. In the formation of tasks, more than 15 thousand mentors from 746 open projects took part.
For successfully completed work, the mentor from the open project will receive $ 500, but payments to participants while are not defined (previously paid $ 5500).
Graph GSOC 2022 is not yet approved. Initially, a two-week stage of receiving applications from representatives of open projects will begin, after which the task is declared. Then the participants must choose a project to their soul and discuss the possibility of its implementation with representatives of the projects submitted. Next, representatives of open projects will choose participants who will deal with the performance.