I guess I didn't realize there was pay involved. How about a kick-starter approach? Think it'd work?
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:20 PM, John Floren <j...@jfloren.net> wrote: > 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 > >> > > > >
