Hey, As you might have noticed in IRC or here already, qutebrowser is participating as a project in Rails Girls Summer of Code[1].
I'm always happy to get new people to contribute to qutebrowser and to open-source in general. I think the way some maintainers of open source projects are treating contributors is not how things should be, and I'm trying to set a better example whenever possible. I can highly recommend reading Kenneth Reitz' "Be Cordial or Be on Your Way"[2] on this topic. :) Some months ago I thought about signing up for Google Summer of Code[3], but I realized qutebrowser was probably too small for that. Then thanks to another Python developer[4] I learned about RGSoC and that it's not all about Ruby on Rails, so I decided to sign up. The sign up period for students has ended last week, and qutebrowser got selected[5] as 1st choice project by one team, and second-choice by four teams - since it's likely one of those teams will be selected to participate, it's time to elaborate a bit more on what that means for qutebrowser. In July/August/September, a team of two people will work full-time on qutebrowser, sponsored by various companies[6]. At least two persons already started to contribute now, which is great! :) They'll have dedicated coaches[7] local to them who can help with issues coming up, and of course I'll also do my part by helping with anything related to qutebrowser and setting things up correctly. This is expected to take a few hours per week, so it shouldn't affect the work I do on QtWebEngine financed via the crowdfunding[8] much. I think this will be a great opportunity for qutebrowser to get some additional contributions, and for the contributing team to collect new experience and hopefully learn a lot :) Florian [1] http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/ [2] http://www.kennethreitz.org/essays/be-cordial-or-be-on-your-way [3] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/ [4] https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/716313443016568834 [5] https://teams.railsgirlssummerofcode.org/projects/120-qutebrowser [6] http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/sponsors/ [7] http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/guide/coaching/ [8] http://igg.me/at/qutebrowser -- http://www.the-compiler.org | [email protected] (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I'm running a crowdfunding to work on my FOSS-project full-time: http://igg.me/at/qutebrowser
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