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Open source software projects :
University of Moratuwa becomes World's Hot Spot
The University of Moratuwa (UoM) recorded significant achievement
when it was placed as the top University worldwide in terms of the
number of awards received by students at the Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
competitions from the inception in 2005 to 2009.
UoM won the highest number of awards consecutively at the annual
competitions in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In the five years of competition
1384 universities worldwide had received at least one award which
measures students' talent, creativity, ability and performance. The GSoC
is a global software development competition organized by the Search
Engine Giant.
From its inception in 2005 to 2009, the GSoC program has selected
nearly 4,070 student award winners from nearly 85 countries. USA, India,
Germany, Canada, Poland, Brazil, United Kingdom, China, France and Sri
Lanka which are at the pinnacle of programming expertise have been key
players in the GSoC.
Though the total number seems farfetched due to the small population
of University students in this country, Sri Lanka still managed to be in
the top 10 between 2005 and 2009 with respect to the number of awards
won by the students.
The most noteworthy feature is that although USA, India and Germany
secured the first three positions in the total number of proposals
accepted by GSoC between 2005 and 2009, none of the Universities in
those countries could record 79 awards as the number of proposals
accepted from one single University, which the UoM achieved, surpassing
every other University worldwide by a large margin.
The University of Campinas, Brazil with 37 awards was the closest
while University of Toronto, Canada with 34 awards was third amongst
Universities in terms of the total number of accepted awards between
2005 and 2009.
Ranking of the top 108 Universities in the World who have at least
eight accepted student awards at the GSoC from its inception in 2005 to
2009.
Rank Country University Total 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
1 Sri Lanka University of Moratuwa 79 22 24 22 9 4
2 Brazil University of Campinas
- UNICAMP 37 12 10 5 7 3
3 Canada University of Toronto 34 7 6 5 9 7
4 Austria Vienna University of
Technology 31 9 6 9 6 1
5 China Graduate University of
Chinese Academy of
Sciences 30 11 10 6 2 1
6 US University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign 28 7 5 4 10 3
7 Poland Wroclaw University of
Technology 27 4 9 6 3 5
8 Canada Carleton University 21 3 7 5 4 2
9 Hungary Budapest University of
Technology and Economics 21 5 7 4 4 1
10 Romania Alexandru Ioan Cuza
University of Iasi 20 4 7 5 3 1 |
