List of programming contests

List of programming/development contests

Contests focusing on open source technologies

Contest Name	Main Sponsor	Description	Running Since	Usual Time	Next Application Cycle	Status
Multi-Agent Programming Contest	Clausthal University of Technology in conjunction with agent-oriented workshops	Annual international programming competition to stimulate research in the area of multi-agent system development and programming.	2005	Sept	Sept 2011	Active
Google Summer of Code	Google Inc.	An annual program in which Google awards stipends to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free software / open-source coding project during the summer.	2005	Mar-Aug	Mar 23- Apr 3	Active
Ruby Summer of Code	Engine Yard	Ruby Summer of Code is a student internship program, modeled after Google’s Summer of Code, designed to help fund student development of Ruby coding projects.	2010	Mar-Aug	Mar 23- Apr 3	Active
Fedora Summer Coding program	FedoraProject	The Fedora Summer Coding program connects students, mentors, sub-projects, and sponsors to provide coding opportunities as summer jobs	2005	June-Sept	May	Inactive
Google Highly Open Participation Contest	Google Inc.	A contest run by Google in 2007-8 aimed at high school students. The contest is designed to encourage high school students to participate in open source projects	2007	Nov-Feb	Unknown	Unknown
200,000$ OpenWRT firmware/UI challenge	Ubiquiti.	Come up with "the most impressive User Interface/Firmware for Ubiquiti's newly released open-source embedded wireless platform, the RouterStation.	2008	Dec 08-Aug 09	-	-
Eirrcon Application Awards	Ericsson	Sustainable, Social, Fun apps.	2010	Nov 09-Jun 10	-	-