[fab] Google's Summer of Code 2006

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 12:30 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
> > I havent seen the SoC requirements in their site that contradict what I
> > suggested would be the ideal procedure to tackle this. If it does
> > contradict, we are better off doing our own bounties program based on
> > what we think would work well rather than shoehorn the process into
> > something that has proven itself a failure.
> 
> It's not a failure for the students.
> 
> It's not a failure as far as us getting money out of it ;-)
> 
> Best,
> -- Elliot

I assumed that we are participating as mentoring organizations not
merely to give intellectual exercises to students but also get useful
tasks done. 

>From the list of bounties done last year, I cant see many projects that
have found their way into Fedora itself.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2005

Rahul