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

[Joseph Stewart <joseph.stewart@gmail.com>]

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I guess I didn't realize there was pay involved. How about a kick-starter
approach? Think it'd work?

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:20 PM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:

> 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
> <joseph.stewart@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >>
> >
>
>

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