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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 concerne
by 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 agoDepends 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 agoSelection 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)