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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
by 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 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)