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Re: Question to all candidates: financing of development



On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:39:27AM +1100, Anthony Towns wrote:
> But all that aside, GSoC still gets some "flames" on Debian lists; see
> the thread on -devel from about this time last year, eg:
> 
>     http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/04/msg00424.html
>     http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/04/msg00431.html
>     http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/04/msg00441.html

FWIW, I believe the above flames (which match those I remember having
ever had about GSoC) are in a quite different field than those we had
about Dunc-Tank.

The main criticism to GSoC we had within the project is that it should
not be used to support student which are already involved in Debian as
DDs and/or DMs. That is a criticism I personally share. GSoC is about
getting new blood in the project; hiring students which are already
involved in the project pretty much defeats that purpose.


Cheers.

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