On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Amias Channer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Microsoft use plenty of open source, and are themselves releasing more & more. "Hindering MS" is not a goal. > 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. Google supports open source because supporting open source is good, and open source has supported Google. It encourages young developers to work on open source projects which helps everyone. More here: http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_goals http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_graduate has some info as a guide on eligibility - looks as if you're in FTE in April this year, you're eligible. $4500 for a summer's hacking isn't bad going... But congrats to MJ for the most cynical post on here so far ;-) Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/192/ P > > 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 > _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
