Mr. Ilo Calistus , a students of University of Nigeria,
Nsukka (UNN), has been selected to represent
Nigeria at the 11th edition of the Google Summer of
Code programme. The final year student of the department of
Computer Science and UNN Google Student
Ambassador will work with Syster, an Anita Borg
Institute based in United States and contribute to
the 55 million lines of code which has been written
so far for the development of an Android App for Peace Corp volunteers. This year about 1,051 students will be participating;
representing a total of 73 countries. Each of the
students will be required to work for a period of 12
weeks with the organization he or she will be
assigned to. The Google Summer of Code which began in 2005
is a program that offers student developers
stipends to write code for various open source
projects for top technology companies like Google,
Mozilla, Encyclopedia of Life, etc.