coreboot got rejected too and we had 5 years in a row. Don't feel bad.
I think they're trying to make sure that they don't get the same
players year after year, which is a good idea IMHO.
ron
On Sun Mar 18 16:32:12 EDT 2012, rminn...@gmail.com wrote:
coreboot got rejected too and we had 5 years in a row. Don't feel bad.
I think they're trying to make sure that they don't get the same
players year after year, which is a good idea IMHO.
thanks, ron. that's reason enough to try
So this all makes me wonder why some social aggregation group (aka stack
overflow or reddit/programming) or even just a big group of decentralized
nerds couldn't just do a variant of GSoC on our own.
Lining up mentors and mentees particularly w/o big biz or school backing is
kinda what open
I think being able to pay the students is what really makes GSoC work.
It adds an additional dimension that makes it a lot harder to just
say, Oh, I'm bored with this, I quit.
John
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Joseph Stewart
joseph.stew...@gmail.com wrote:
So this all makes me wonder why
I guess I didn't realize there was pay involved. How about a kick-starter
approach? Think it'd work?
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:20 PM, John Floren j...@jfloren.net wrote:
I think being able to pay the students is what really makes GSoC work.
It adds an additional dimension that makes it a lot
Kickstarter works because the people on Kickstarter are interested in
whatever the project is producing. A book, a video game, other
products. Plan 9 has a small community and an even smaller number of
people who actually use it. Unfortunately, I don't think there's
enough money there to pay for 1
On Sun Mar 18 19:51:00 EDT 2012, j...@jfloren.net wrote:
Kickstarter works because the people on Kickstarter are interested in
whatever the project is producing. A book, a video game, other
products. Plan 9 has a small community and an even smaller number of
people who actually use it.
On 18 March 2012 20:37, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
On Sun Mar 18 19:51:00 EDT 2012, j...@jfloren.net wrote:
Kickstarter works because the people on Kickstarter are interested in
whatever the project is producing. A book, a video game, other
products. Plan 9 has a small
I am a student who would be interested in doing GSOC next year. In
reality it all comes down to getting paid though. Like someone
mentioned, very little work gets done on free will, so gsoc is a
good approach. (especially implementing not so fun things nobody dares
touch)
that's one way of
On 18 March 2012 22:04, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
I am a student who would be interested in doing GSOC next year. In
reality it all comes down to getting paid though. Like someone
mentioned, very little work gets done on free will, so gsoc is a
good approach. (especially
Agreed - people do tend to perform better when working on a project
they are really invested in.
But if that was true enough, wouldn't tons of people be stepping up to
support plan9 development?
If not, then obviously it's not worth anyone's time.
your argument seems to me to be an
On 18 March 2012 22:16, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
Agreed - people do tend to perform better when working on a project
they are really invested in.
But if that was true enough, wouldn't tons of people be stepping up to
support plan9 development?
If not, then obviously it's
It feels like the kind of thing I always wind up saying to someone who
want's to learn about computers. .. You need a reason that you really
care about, or odds are you probably wont make it that far. Leading a horse
to water thing. Or else, you dont have a reason but by golly you can learn
and do
that's one way of looking at it. another way of looking at it is that
the best jobs are the ones that you'd do anyway. and one could argue
these lucky people get the best job done.
as someone who's currently doing some of it anyway, work on plan9 would
be delightful. but i'm not so sure i'd
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