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Google Summer of Code Expands
bakotaco wrote with news from the Summer of Code site: "We're Expanding the Summer of Code... After spot reviewing the applications we've received for the Summer of Code, we were struck with their high quality. As a result, we were able to increase the funds available to support 400 students, double our original number of 200. While this doesn't allow us to take all applicants, we thought that this would be a terrific thing to do for the mentoring organizations, the students, open source software and computer science."
Google has been the darling of the tech world for who knows how long because sometimes they just do the right thing. Of course there's something in it for them, there always is, but for a publicly held company to continue the high reputation it held as a private company is admirable. Yes there have been changes there and no not everybody is happy, but the leaders of the company are still good leaders. That's a rarity these days.
...building their personal army of Google programmers. It's an excellent way to get the developer community on your side. I am anxious to see what type of innovations will come from all this.
"...if people respected copyright more, like you guys do with the GPL so religiously, [the DMCA] wouldn't be necessary."
Don't be a jerk. I'm a geek and this shit matters to me. Don't like what slashdot reports? Don't read it.
... those selected will only earn $2250 over the summer. But remember, having Google on your resume looks better than McDonalds! Have a nice day!
- sm
So contribute already... there's no entrance exam you know.
Would it really hurt to participate in an opensource project and *not* get paid???
Think of the time involved. Taking ~6000 applications and writing a 10 minute rejection: 60,000 person-minutes. That's 1,000 person hours, or half of a work year for some guy just to type up personal apologies. Who in their right mind _wants_ companies to pay people to do such things, that's like demanding that people have sucky jobs!
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
"Out of this piece of philanthropy (it really is philanthropy when you are paying programmers these days -- we need as much support as we can get!)"
Welcome to the new Open Source world folks. Software development used to be a lucrative rewarding profession (both intellectually and monetarily). Now its just a field of people climbing over themselves in order to write code for mega-corporations for free.
Mega-corporations including the Apache Software Foundation, the Perl Foundation, the Python Foundation, Gaim, Samba, FreeBSD, NetBSD....
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Actually I was thinking about mega-corporations such as Redhat (which had the CEO who made over $250 million in compensation before he quit) and Google (their newly minted billionaires and many multi-millionaires thank you), Linksys, etc.
What a great idea! The execs finally figured out how to get the people to work for them for free! No wonder they make tens of millions of dollars per year.
Chris
Co-Editor, Open Sources
Open Source Program Manager, Google, Inc.
$2,000,000 to identify 400 potential recruits is a bargain.
They are just picking ... from the original batch of applicants.
... Which implies that the original batch of submissions was better than they were originally hoping for.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.