On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 11:47 +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > And the "Summer of Code" scheme which buys some projects a student > worker for the summer is part of this landscape, although it also > means Google gets new data about lots of students and mentors. My > view is that we should note they "aren't a particularly good example, > but if you can get money out of them to improve the project and the > web search tools it contains, good luck!" (from a debian-project email > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/04/msg00291.html ).
Linking to your own posts which only link to another of your own posts is not considered evidence in book. As far as i have heard the GSOC thing came out of google needing some particularly difficult advances in several open source projects and finding a way to help this happen without having to try to own the people who could do it. Its seems to continue on the basis that it helps open source projects which hinders microsoft. I cant see how GSOC helps their recruitment , they don't do it like anyone else as several people on this list can testify . The idea of saving money in that process is not of great importance nor does its seem is carbon neutrality. Also i've seen projects sponsored by GSOC that are nothing to do with search , mixxx and open source djing tool comes to mind. So come on MJ what is it , what did they do to you ? Toodle-pip Amias _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
