I think being able to pay the students is what really makes GSoC work. It adds an additional dimension that makes it a lot harder to just say, "Oh, I'm bored with this, I quit".
John On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Joseph Stewart <joseph.stew...@gmail.com> wrote: > So this all makes me wonder why some social aggregation group (aka stack > overflow or reddit/programming) or even just a big group of decentralized > nerds couldn't just do a variant of GSoC on our own. > > Lining up mentors and mentees particularly w/o big biz or school backing is > kinda what open source is all about. > > I guess what I'm saying is "could we do this on our own"? Maybe not having > Google behind the effort takes some of the air out of it... but maybe not? > > -j > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:35 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> > wrote: >> >> On Sun Mar 18 16:32:12 EDT 2012, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: >> > coreboot got rejected too and we had 5 years in a row. Don't feel bad. >> > I think they're trying to make sure that they don't get the same >> > players year after year, which is a good idea IMHO. >> > >> >> thanks, ron.  that's reason enough to try again next year. >> >> - erik >> >