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 source is all about.

I guess what I'm saying is "could we do this on our own"? Maybe not having
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 <quanstro@quanstro.net>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.  that's reason enough to try again next year.
>
> - erik
>
>