Participation was also banned for participants from the L/DPR.
Google has decided not to allow programmers from Russia and Belarus to the annual global competition Google Summer of Code (GSoC), Interfax reports. The statement of the organizers of the competition also says that the ban on participation also applies to programmers from the so-called “L/DNR”.
“Due to the current circumstances, GSoC 2022 does not accept participants (participants, mentors or administrators of organizations) from Russia, Belarus and the so-called” Donetsk People's Republic “(” DPR “) and” Luhansk People's Republic “(” LPR “). There are no restrictions for participants who are on the territory of Ukraine, but outside the “DPR” and “LPR”, – said in a statement.
Read also: Bloomberg: The massacre in Bucha is not the first, but it should be The latest is GSoC, a Google program that allows students involved in open source projects to receive funding. The amount of the scholarship depends on the size of the project, the country of residence of the participant and varies from 1.5 thousand to 6.6 thousand dollars. The program was launched in 2005 at the initiative of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Earlier, the US post-envoy to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said that her country would appeal to the organization's General Assembly to expel Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. Western media, in turn, say that such a decision will require the votes of two-thirds of the member states of the UN General Assembly, which consists of 193 states, ie at least 128.
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