Google invites Jodhpur boy to California headquarter

JODHPUR: A youth from the 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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