On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 20:13:39 +0200 Rory McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is only different in that it is official, and there is a deadline. > It's good PR. When you hear "D summer of code" project you know there > is at least one person working hard on the project and that they > definitely have a mentor. > > It would be on record that you were involved in DSoC 2013. > > :) plus a group would get to approve or disapprove projects. > > If you don't complete your project it is a lot worse than if it were > just an idea mentioned on a forum somewhere. > > There really is something to it being official and having a deadline > though. Plus, as someone already alluded to, it wouldn't necessarily have to exclude people, as GSoC intentionally does, just because they went with a non-traditional non-one-size-fits-all education route.
