Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012

[Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@gmail.com>]

On 18 March 2012 20:37, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> 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
>

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)