Hi jbw, On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:02 AM, jbw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:00 PM, jbw <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Roger Pack <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Jeremy Kemper wrote: >>>> Fellow Rubyists, I'm proud to announce the first annual Ruby Summer of >>>> Code. >>>> >>>> In the best tradition of Google's legendary summers of code, Ruby >>>> Central, Engine Yard [1], and the Rails team [2] have joined forces to >>>> muster a legend of our own, a new summer program for student Rubyists >>>> to flex their open source might. >>>> >>>> * Students are paid a $5000 stipend to work full-time during their >>>> summer break. >>> >>> One suggestion for future years might be to allow non-students. Since >>> 1) we're not google SoC so we can, and 2) if somebody can do it full >>> time then why not... >>> >> > I think the goal of getting younger developers involved in open source > is important and allowing non-students might make it harder for > younger developers, that's with the assumption all young people are > students :p
College-student status is a measure that has worked well for Google so we're cargo-culting and running with it this year. Primarily, it filters out professional developers who would treat the program as a three-month contract gig and gain nothing from it but a paycheck. But, there are many paths to discovering the joys of Ruby and open source participation. We're not huge fans of adding age and schooling discrimination on top of that. So perhaps we treat it like the Olympics: amateurs only. Next year, I hope to see plumbers switching careers and retirees unlearning COBOL, too! jeremy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
