GSoC 2012

[Stéphane Marchesin]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 08:53, Matt Dew <marcoz at osource.org> wrote:
> Howdy folks,
>  google has announced Summer of Code for 2012.  I hope I'm not overstepping
> my bounds here.  A couple of the local universities have some pretty sharp
> students.  I've started poking the local universities to drum up interest
> and hopefully snag some of the sharp, talented and motivated students.
>

Hi Matt,

That sounds like a great idea. Over the last couple years, we've had
an increasing number of students who were more interested in money
than in the actual technical challenge and the open source aspect.
Such students will require lots of mentoring, do a sloppy job, and
then disappear after the summer. For us (X.Org) it's a net loss
because we invest mentoring time. Recruiting passionate students in
the universities would help us avoid this problem.

Along the same lines I'm thinking about having a policy of "you must
have at least one accepted patch to one of the freedesktop repos to be
a SoC student" this year.

Stéphane