Re: Debian participation into GNOME Outreach Program for Women
Hi,
On 22/04/13 at 22:42 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 21:26:18 +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > On 2013-03-26, Stefano Zacchiroli <leader@debian.org> wrote:
> > > TL;DR: we've been invited to participate into GNOME Outreach Program for
> > > Women and I'd like to accept the invitation. To maximize impact, though,
> > > we need mentors and topics to complement the current GSoC tasks.
> >
> > I'm very much against spending debian money on paying for contributors
> > time.
>
> I'm very much against this too.
I'm very much against this too. Actually, in
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/02/msg01267.html, I wrote:
| I think that GSOC is a great opportunity to get fresh blood inside
| Debian, and that we should use it for that, not to get funding for usual
| Debian work.
However, OPW aims at attracting new contributors, not at funding current
contributors. Clearly, I would favor a situation where Debian budget would not
be used for funding this participation (thanks to specific donations, for
example), but that was not an option for this OPW's round given that we got
on the train quite late.
Let's use this round as an experiment, with one stipend funded by Debian, to
get a better idea of what we want to do for future rounds.
Now, there's the question of the GSOC mentoring organization money
(http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2013/help_page#1._How_do_payments_work).
Debian will get $500 per GSoC student. As a total, it is likely to amount to
almost as much as the OPW stipend, and maybe to more. So one can read this as
GSoC funding Debian's experimental participation in OPW for this round.
Lucas
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