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Thilo Bangert wrote: |
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> it's not just what you "sincerely think"! I most certainly think, you have |
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> a valid point. |
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> from http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_goals: |
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And yet from the same site: |
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7. Can students working on an open source project continue to work on it |
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as part of Google Summer of Code? |
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Yes, as long as they meet all other requirements for program |
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eligibility. Students should be sure to note their previous relationship |
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with the project in their applications. New work will need to be done |
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for the project as part of participation in GSoC. |
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> Google Summer of Code has several goals: |
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> - Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source |
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> development; |
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Do we inspire them by telling them that anybody who has made this choice |
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in the past is not to be rewarded financially for doing so? |
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A bigger concern is this. Which is better for gentoo? Taking somebody |
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who has never worked on gentoo and paying them money to possibly |
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accomplish something on the project, or taking somebody who is already |
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doing quite a bit and pay them so that they can accomplish even more |
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without the distraction of a day job? |
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I do think that recruitment is important, but I think it is a bit of a |
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slap on the face to those who do volunteer to suggest that they're good |
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enough to work for us but not good enough to pay (when it doesn't even |
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cost us a dime to do so). |
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Volunteers work on the stuff they want to work on - SoC isn't so much |
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about paying people to work on Open Source as much as it is about |
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enabling people to work on Open Source when otherwise they'd have to do |
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something else to pay the bills. If somebody doesn't currently want to |
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volunteer for Gentoo, why would they want to after the paychecks stop? |
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And if they do currently volunteer for Gentoo, why would we force them |
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to get involved with some other Open Source project if they wanted to be |
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paid as part of the SoC? |
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