A youth from the Jodhpur city has been chosen among 50 computer experts from
across the globe by Google in its Mentor Summit to be held at its
headquarter in California on October 20-21, this year. The objective of
this summit is to bring together the mentors of the Google Summer of
Code 2012, which is a global programme that offers student developers
stipends to write code for various open source software projects.
This youth of Jodhpur, Aditya Maheshwari is not only one of the two
Indians invited by Google for this summit but is the youngest among all
the 50 participants. He has also been nominated as the Campus Ambassador
of Gujarat for the Open Source Software Development by the IIT-Mumbai
in 2011, under which, over 20 seminars have been conducted across the
country for the students of Computer students.
This summit will
have deliberations over simplification of the Open Source Software and
contribution by the Google in this simplification. "There will be 3
components of this summit, which are how to improve the programme, how
Google can do more for open source and how mentors and representatives
of development communities can help one another," Maheshwari said.
Maheshwari, who will be presenting a paper on "How to attract youth for
contribution in development cycle of open source world" has been
chosen by the Google for playing an exemplary role as the on-line
project guide on world level as a student mentor of Google Summer of
Code 2012.
Since its inception in 2005, this programme has
brought together nearly 5,500 successful student participants and over
3,000 mentors from over 100 countries worldwide, all for the love of
code.
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