From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20120316193646.GA2789@polynum.com> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:20:30 -0700 Message-ID: From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6a731a32-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 wrote: > So this all makes me wonder why some social=A0aggregation group (aka stac= k > 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 source is all about. > > I guess what I'm saying is "could we do this on our own"? Maybe not havin= g > Google behind the effort takes some of the air out of it... but maybe not= ? > > -j > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:35 PM, erik quanstrom > wrote: >> >> On Sun Mar 18 16:32:12 EDT 2012, rminnich@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. =A0that's reason enough to try again next year. >> >> - erik >> >