Google Summer Code Program 2010 sees some great female programmers

The Google Summer Code program 2010 ended on August 23, 2010, and this year there were many female participants.

Over the years, the program brought more than 3,400 students who worked on more than 200 open source projects containing millions of lines of codes. This year’s Summer Code Program saw more than 1000 students from 69 countries writing codes and of them 6.5 percent were female represent 23 countries.

Ann Marie Horcher is an information systems security Ph.D. candidate at Nova Southeastern University. She worked on a program that would enable users to transform a docbook file to epub format used in e-book readers like Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook and iPad. Thanks to her project, it is now easy to move technical documentation to a portable format. Here is a video clip that shows Ann Marie’s work:

A bioinformatics graduate student from the University of Michigan, Kathryn Iverson, had been mentored by National Evolutionary Biology Synthesis Center. She worte “a library implemented in Java with KML to build geophylogenies.”

Layla Oesper, a Ph.D. candidate in Brown University computer science, built a plugin for Cytoscape. She was looking for a job that would give her the opportunity to attend two wedding ceremonies. Here is a video clip where she talks about her project.