On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Joseph Stewart
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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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