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It is only a good thing that others also get opportunity to work for Open source and also earn some money for it.

by geodel 5y ago

dilyevsky 5y ago
It is already pretty hard on maintainers which I don’t believe get paid. I think it’s worth it if it’s for students but it should have been a separate program if it’s just some random person wanting to get involved.
- geodel 5y ago
  I do not know if random student to be able earn money for open source work is somehow inherently better than random person getting it. I could be more concerned if they made program more restrictive. But making it more open is not only more practical and useful for people at large it is also ethically better thing to do. Besides if someone dislike Google's decision they are welcome to not participate.
  - dilyevsky 5y ago
    Depends on how they are going to be selecting participants (blogpost doesn’t mention that). If that opens up a floodgate for yesterday’s freelancers to suddenly be interested in open source (but really just to make a quick buck) then i can see projects pulling out bc it repurposes the program from purely mentorship/education-focused to commercial and the end result will be worse for everyone.
    - david_allison 5y ago
      Selection for GSoC contributors is based on the mentoring organization's criteria and the number of student slots provided by Google. A rough timeline for 2022 is available[0], as is the 2021 timeline[1] which should provide context. [0] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201218163427/https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline https://web.archive.org/web/20201218163427/https://developer... (2021 GSoC mentor & org admin, but can't guarantee the process will be the same in 2022)
- david_allison 5y ago
  The organisation gets a small stipend per-student ($400) which can be distributed to the mentors. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/rules/ https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/rules/ - 8.2 a) ii)

It is only a good thing that others also get opportunity to work for Open source and also earn some money for it.

by geodel 5y ago

It is only a good thing that others also get opportunity to work for Open source and also earn some money for it.

It is already pretty hard on maintainers which I don’t believe get paid. I think it’s worth it if it’s for students but it should have been a separate program if it’s just some random person wanting to get involved.

geodel 5y ago
I do not know if random student to be able earn money for open source work is somehow inherently better than random person getting it. I could be more concerned if they made program more restrictive. But making it more open is not only more practical and useful for people at large it is also ethically better thing to do. Besides if someone dislike Google's decision they are welcome to not participate.
- dilyevsky 5y ago
  Depends on how they are going to be selecting participants (blogpost doesn’t mention that). If that opens up a floodgate for yesterday’s freelancers to suddenly be interested in open source (but really just to make a quick buck) then i can see projects pulling out bc it repurposes the program from purely mentorship/education-focused to commercial and the end result will be worse for everyone.
  - david_allison 5y ago
    Selection for GSoC contributors is based on the mentoring organization's criteria and the number of student slots provided by Google. A rough timeline for 2022 is available[0], as is the 2021 timeline[1] which should provide context. [0] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201218163427/https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline https://web.archive.org/web/20201218163427/https://developer... (2021 GSoC mentor & org admin, but can't guarantee the process will be the same in 2022)
david_allison 5y ago
The organisation gets a small stipend per-student ($400) which can be distributed to the mentors. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/rules/ https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/rules/ - 8.2 a) ii)