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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:37:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012
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On Sun Mar 18 19:51:00 EDT 2012, john@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. Unfortunately, I don't think there's
> enough money there to pay for 1 GSoC-equivalent student, especially
> considering that the project may turn out to be something the
> contributors have very little interest in.
>
> GSoC works great for Google because they have the money & organization
> to do it. It builds good-will for them and helps them scout potential
> employees while also (ideally) improving open source projects. The
> only thing 9fans has out of that list is the interest in improving an
> open source project :)

i'm not ready to dismiss this idea.  there are student, project, mentor tuples i'd
be willing to pony up gsoc-level money for.

- erik