On Mon, Nov 12, 2012, at 08:32 AM, Radhika Puthiyetath wrote: > Could we start with inviting students to code CloudStack- an Apache > CloudStack Summer of Code ?
So, Summer of Code usually has an incentive (around $5K per student, if I recall correctly). Next year, when Google does Summer of Code I did plan to try to get CloudStack accepted as a mentoring organization - but I don't think they'll start asking for organizations before February or March. (I've worked with GSOC before, when I was with openSUSE - it is a good program.) We *should* reach out to students before then, though - it's better to have a few students who are involved with the project already. Before going too deep into incentive programs, though, I'd encourage checking out Stormy Peters' talk: "Would you do it again for free?" http://stormyscorner.com/would-you-do-it-again-for-free tl;dr - incentive programs don't always wind up generating long-term involvement. Best, Joe -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
