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 15:06:00 -0700 Message-ID: From: Joseph Stewart To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=002354470c5ca5464c04bb8ba57d Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9 rejected from GSoC 2012 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6a6b13a0-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --002354470c5ca5464c04bb8ba57d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 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 > > --002354470c5ca5464c04bb8ba57d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So this all makes me wonder why some social=A0aggregation group (aka stack = overflow or reddit/programming) or even just a big group of decentralized n= erds 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, e= rik 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 sa= me
> players year after year, which is a good idea IMHO.
>

thanks, ron. =A0that's reason enough to try again next year= .

- erik


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