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Summer of Code: is it all about the money?

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This is the text of a mail I sent earlier today to gentoo-dev mailing list:

I know this is going to stir up quite some discussion, but I do think it’s worth trying requesting it at least.

In the past two years we had quite a few applications from students that were already full-fledged Gentoo developers. I sincerely would like that this year we put as a rule that Gentoo developers cannot partecipate in Summer of Code as students for Gentoo.
I’m not asking to penalise Gentoo developers are students. But I sincerely think the main goal of Summer of Code is to allow new people to enter the scene of Free Software, to understand how Free Software projects work and so on. Gentoo Developers are already pretty well “inside” this world.

I think it should be a self-made decision to abstain from applying as a student for what you already partecipate in, but as such concerns don’t seem to be widespread (at least as the last two years shown), I’m asking for a formal decision to all the developers. If that is requested, I’m even willing to bring this in front of the council.

I just wish that we can focus this opportunity to improve the Gentoo project as a whole.

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Gentoo devs, Summer of Code, money

Read his post if you have not already done so.

As he points out, the idea of Google's Summer of Code was to get new people involved into free software and official Gentoo developers are obviously already deeply involved. So he wants Gentoo to make it a rule not to pay the Google Summer of Code money to Gentoo developers.

I think it's understandable, especially for those not getting money from their employer to work on Gentoo, that some devs like to get some of that money that Google hands out kind of as a bonus for all the hard work that they invested into Gentoo all through the year.

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