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| Akarshan Gandotra |
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| Harsh Lathwal |
Akarshan Gandotra and Harsh Lathwal, 3rd Year, BTech (CSE-Class of 2018) successfully completed Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2017, an international annual programme organized by Google to bring more students to open source development. Over 20,651 students from 144 countries registered for the GSoC 2017 programme out of which only 1,318 students were accepted from 575 universities all over the world. The objective of this competitive and prestigious programme is to connect students with mentors for three months, to develop open source software.
NCU students were able to make a mark in this programme in their maiden attempt and were part of of 142 students who were participating in this programme for the first time. Both the students received $2400 as stipend for their projects, a referral for a job or internship at Google and an opportunity for a meet-up with the Google team at San Francisco Bay Area.
Akarshan and Harsh have taken the initiative to establish an Open Source culture in the University by organizing sessions like how to crack GSoC’18, how to use GitHub, Github Advance, etc. Moreover, they are working on a few Open Source Projects with the junior batches.
