[Members] Re: disconnect from board to active developers

[Alan Coopersmith]

Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Maybe the approach should be to make more of an effort with Summer of Code?
> 
> I wonder if it would be possible for X.org to sheild itself from charges 
> of nepotism by actually putting money *into* SoC, and having those guys 
> decide which (X.org related obviously) projects it gets spent on?

But we had to pick the Summer of Code candidates we wanted funded out of the
X related project proposals - Google doesn't know enough about all of the
couple hundred participating projects to choose on their own, so they rely on
the projects doing so.

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