[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana/Illumos & Google Summer of Code

[Edward Martinez]

On 01/27/11 07:32, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 01/27/11 03:27 AM, Edward Martinez wrote:
>>      Sorry, I too have my schedule full,:-( I was not aware how much it takes to
>> enroll a project into GSOC program after reading some of the requirements
>>     it appears it takes more then one person with a lot of time to organize it,
>> this is some of what google requires, I'm willing to help, if i can,  i thought
>> it would neat to get illumos to
>>     pair with OI.
> Right - don't think of GSoC as magically providing free labor for nothing,
> consider it more as some of your existing active developers volunteering
> to spend several months helping mentor and train new developers, using your
> project as their learning material.   You may or may not get usable improvements
> to the code, you might also get students who drop out, or who learn from their
> project what doesn't work and that something shouldn't be integrated to your
> code the way they attempted.   In any case, the primary goal of GSoC is to
> develop students into new/better community members&  open source developers,
> with any code that may or may not develop as a potential, but not guaranteed,
> bonus.
>


    Hi Alan,

   thanks for the explanation. yearly, I see many of the OSS I use being 
part of the GSOC, but i was not fully aware how it really worked,
   until now, I learned something new:-)

    Regards
    Edward