Google Summer of Code 2014 by the numbers: Part one (original) (raw)

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