101 Indians make it to Google Summer of Code 2009 - 2nd highest after U.S.

So what if 101 Indians got into GSOC? Why is this on the frontpage of HN (or IN rather)?

More from Google - <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/04/india-3-google-summer-of-code.html" rel="nofollow">http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/04/india-3-google...</a>

People should not be surprised seeing more Indians or even Chinese developers/engineers... First off in terms of numbers they are 4 to 1 over us engineers individually and if combined about 8 to 1 just in sheer numbers. So even in the US where we only have 300m people, in most cases when there is engineering or development you will see these types of ratios.<p>Also, we want people coming here making businesses, buying our software services, starting businesses etc.<p>Keep this in mind as well, the larger base of developers that you have, the more you have that are better, AND the more you have in multiples are worse. Race/culture means nothing in technology and innovation.

I don't know how relevant it is for the rest of the world - but for us Indian foss developers, it is good news. And an India-focused site carrying such news is pretty normal too. We have been battling with the problem of being the IT department of the world, and not having enough foss developers to match other countries. The problem is partly economical (IMHO), where we sometimes just can't spare enough time to indulge in giving away our work.<p>That said, there is a very active foss movement, and conferences like foss.in have been driving the contribution message pretty heavily. The growing number of GSoC applicants means that the message is finally hitting home, and hopefully we can have more active open source contributors in the future (though a lot of students are also attracted by the monetary aspect of GSoC).

For those who may not understand the meaning of the domain, "startupdunia" means "startupworld" in Malaysia. I bet that the owner of the website is an indian from Malaysia.