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From what I read, they applied 2 years in a row, and nothing happened. From the link it's not really clear what happened. > we didn't really see enough return
by hermitdev 10y ago
From what I read, they applied 2 years in a row, and nothing happened. From the link it's not really clear what happened.
> we didn't really see enough return in terms of new developers to the project.
It's not clear in just this context what the author means. Were they looking to add significant numbers of full-time contributors? If so, I don't really think that's what GSoC is about. Isn't GSoC geared towards smaller projects that can nominally be completed in a student's summer break?
I mean, seems to me that expectations on the 2 sides are different: OpenBSD was looking to recruit full-time (I don't mean full-time in the 40-hours a week sense, but rather year-round part-time contributors) vs GSoC looking to fund individual efforts on OSS projects for 3-4 months during summer break.
Am I misunderstanding?
- stsp 10y agoYour impression that nothing ever happened does not align with the facts. The project applied 2 years in a row, and mentored several students. Some developers mentored more than one student. https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2014/orgs/openbsdfoundation https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2014/orgs/openbs... https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2015/orgs/openbsd_foundation https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2015/orgs/openbs...