A participação brasileira no Google Summer of Code 2009 despontou como a quinta maior em número de submissões e a quinta maior em propostas aceitas. O objetivo deste evento é reunir participantes atuais e anteriores para relatar experiências e divulgar o programa, com o intuito de atrair novos participantes.

Sandro Andrade is a Ph.D candidate in Computer Science at Federal University of Bahia (Brazil). He received a BSc degree in Computer Science (1999) and a MSc degree in Mechatronics (2006) working in projects which involve real-time systems, distributed systems engineering, component-oriented middleware, software visualisation, self-managed software architectures, and autonomic computing. His interest in KDE project began in 2000 when he realized that modern desktop applications could be developed in his favorite programming language (C++) by using a very promising toolkit: Qt2. Sandro is the head of Live Blue group (http://liveblue.wordpress.com), an accepted student in Google Summer of Code 2009 and maintainer of br.kde.org. Currently he is implementing the software visualization features in KDevelop 4.