Hi. 1) We like open source. 2) We like open source people, including Gnomers (gnomites? Gnomes?) 3) We use open source. 4) We are open source people. 5) We felt open source needs a little fresh blood now and then. * 6) We felt that there were a lot of students who would work on open source, if they didn't have to flip burgers.
Hence: Summer of Code. Chris (Google Open Source Programs Manager) * not that I mind running into Nat and Miguel at every damn conference I go to. :-) On 8/15/05, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Quim Gil wrote: > > Sorry for the wide topic, but considering thet GNOME has got a Google's > > Summer of Code fund I think this is an appropriate list to ask. > > It would perhaps have been better to ask Google... ;) > > > Why Google is funding open source development? Why Google is funding > > GNOME? Just because we are so cool and smart? Just to deduce some taxes? > > Google is a huge consumer of free software - Linux, Apache and Python. > They have close ties to the Mozilla Foundation, buy advertising space in > the interface of Firefox, and generally have lots of free software > advocates working for them. > > AFAIK, the idea is simply to "give something back". The size of the > budget and the way that it is being executed may be unusual, but the > idea itself of funding free software development isn't. > > > Has Google given a general explanation? Has Google explained to the > > GNOME Foundation why is giving us money? > > > > All the (very few) infos I've read about the Summer of Code talk about > > free projects, young developers and money... but they don't mention why > > Google is funding them. > > I might be way off base with my answer, so I'll maybe let some people > who know more than me jump in. > > Cheers, > Dave. > > -- > Dave Neary > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Lyon, France > -- Open Source Program Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source program can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Weblog: http://dibona.com -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
