# Google Summer of Code

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/google-summer-of-code/185568>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 22, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/google-summer-of-code/185568 "2010-03-22T21:22:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![3nd3r](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/3/c4cdca/32.png) [@3nd3r](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/3nd3r)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/google-summer-of-code/185568/1 "2010-03-22T21:22:40Z")

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I didn’t see very many ruby \* mentor organizations \*for the Google  
Summer of  
Code Project. Are the following the only organizations with links to  
ruby  
or are there others.

puppet  
opennebula  
Codehaus

What happened to rails and rubycentral participation?

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**Author:** ![3nd3r](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/3/c4cdca/32.png) [@3nd3r](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/3nd3r)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/google-summer-of-code/185568/2 "2010-03-22T21:34:57Z")

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Hi –

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Dominic S. wrote:

> I didn’t see very many ruby \* mentor organizations \*for the Google Summer of  
> Code Project. Are the following the only organizations with links to ruby  
> or are there others.
> 
> puppet  
> opennebula  
> Codehaus
> 
> What happened to rails and rubycentral participation?

Ruby Central was not selected for 2009. We didn’t apply this year. Our  
impression overall has been that the SoC administrators see little or  
no value in having a general Ruby project mentor (analogous to the  
Perl Foundation, for example). They’ve never said this in so many  
words but it’s hard to draw any other conclusion.

So – ever onward. We’re definitely interested in the general idea of  
supporting summer student projects, and are looking into some  
non-Google possibilities. Stay tuned!

David