>I don't know if PSPP has participated in google summer of code before, but if >not, that may be an interesting way to attract new and eager young developers >- who may turn into >active long term developers.
For some time I think at this option too. But for the summer-of-code the project needs mentors who help the students and have a look at there results etc.. If this is again the development team, this wouldn't help much. As for the project itself I don't see a reason why PSPP could not become on the list for a summer-of-code project. As far as I can see, what is needed is: - a mentoring organisation - a list of ideas from which the students can pick an idea and make a proposal As the GNU project was accepted for the summer-of-code 2009 I guess it should be possible to have PSPP participating in 2010 as part of the GNU project. Questions for the list: - Is the PSPP community willing/able to setup a mentoring team and a list of ideas? - Is there somebody who has the time and the skills to organize this without falling back on the development team? Some background - The mentor doesn't have to live on the same continent as the student - The payment for the mentor is almost zero, this is clearly a volunteer job - The payment for a student could in 2009 be a maximum of USD 4500,- Have fun _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
