Alex Hudson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 16:10 +0000, Jason Clifford wrote: >> Looking around at the more prominent people in the UK Free Software >> communities (well the Linux communities anyway) it seems that almost all >> became involved while at school/college/uni. Many if not all were writing >> code for or otherwise contributing to Free Software projects. >> >> How about the idea of part time employment for college/uni students to do >> just that - write code or otherwise contribute to FS projects? > > I think it probably targets the right people. > > I wonder whether employment is the right route though: once you get into > that, you get into a contractual relationship which is a lot more > serious, and you lose efficiency from a tax/NI point of view (that is, > the student would end up with less).
Could we structure it as a scholarship? Most universities / large colleges should already have facilities for handling scholarships. cheers stuart _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
