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Perhaps one of the dumbest question I have ever seen on Quora. Since when did number of GSoC selections become a factor for the 'success' of a college? Giving some stats for the past years2011 - 9 selections2012 - 6 selections2013 - 2 selections2014 - 4 selectionsI would add, that MIT has had high selections over the past 5 years, even surpassing many of the so called 'elite' colleges of our country. We have had students contributing to awesome projects such as Fedora, Mozilla, openSUSE, W3 to name a few.Goes to show that your college doesn’t matter in contributing to open source. What matters is your interest, and feeling of belonging to an open source community.We may be happy about Nadella's and Suri's achievements, but we are definitely proud of our open source contributors, whether they have done a GSoC project or not

If it's declined, then its not by much. The number has been around 80% on w3 tech for as long as I can remember, and I've been using PHP for over a decade.Usage Statistics and Market Share of Server-side Programming Languages for Websites, February 2013

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