On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 15:38, Tomas Carnecky <t...@dbservice.com> wrote: > On 2/21/10 12:01 AM, Barton C Massey wrote: >> The Google/X.Org Summer of Code 2009 was successful, >> with three of four accepted projects completing and >> contributing to X.Org development, as well as helping to >> bring new developers to X.Org [2]. The X.Org Endless >> Vacation of Code was established in 2009 to provide >> opportunities similar to Summer of Code to selected >> students on an ad hoc calendar. Only a couple of >> students have shown interest to date, and the one >> student that submitted an accepted proposal later >> withdrew. This is probably due to the lack of promotion >> of the program. > > You are right that it's because of lack of promotion, I read both xorg > and xorg-devel and I've never heard of it. And google shows only two > hits for 'endless vacation of code' (both are state of the xorg > foundation reports). Is there a wiki page or something describing that > program in more detail? >
Usually we piggyback the Summer of code program. Summer of code brings us a lot of good candidates, and not all of them can be funded by Google, so they are added the Vacation of code program. Stephane _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
