SFC09 #81 First Software Freedom Conference of Kosova 2009

http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=3640 of Code, Google was criticized for not giving sufficient time to open source organizations so they could plan projects for the Summer of Code. Despite these criticisms there were 41 organizations involved,[1] including FreeBSD, Apache, KDE, Ubuntu, Blender, Mozdev, and several others including Google itself. Also, a majority of the projects initiated by participants at the 2005 SoC stalled immediately afterward.[citation needed] According to a blog post by Chris DiBona, Google's open source program manager, "something like 30 percent of the students stuck with their groups post SoC [Summer of Code]." Mozilla developer Gervase Markham also commented that none of the 10 Google-sponsored Mozilla projects survived after the event.[5] However,