On 2019/06/19 22:14:32, William A Rowe Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The proposal is no different than existing programs like GSoC except that>
> it offers the prospect of contributions by underrepresented minorities>
> rather than by students specifically. And it already is funded by a broad>
> number of sponsors, rather than a single tech company.>
>
Unfortunately, "no different" is not quite correct. It is very different or
else we wouldn't be having this discussion. The GSoC process is quite different
from what was being proposed which was:
o Do fundraising and look for a sponsor
o who would provide targeting sponsorship funding
o who would donate those funds to the ASF
o who would then use said funds to sponsor/pay Outreachy
o for someone who would use said Outreachy engagement
o to do development
o for Whimsy
As you know, that is very, very different from how GSoC works. Saying that
there is no difference, assuming you know how GSoC actually runs, is somewhat
inaccurate and disingenuous.
I will go further: if individuals within the ASF wish to pool their own
funds together to give to Outreachy to sponsor someone working on an actual
ASF project, I would commit to paying $1,000 towards that. All independent
and external to the ASF...
Cheers
