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.
