{"id":280,"date":"2008-02-28T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T10:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2008-02-28T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T10:49:35","slug":"google-summer-of-codes-real-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Google Summer of Code&#8217;s real goals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.debian.org\/debian-devel\/2008\/02\/msg01267.html\">interesting discussion about Google Summer of Code<\/a> going on debian-devel@. The question can be summarized as &#8220;<b>Should we allow current Debian contributors to be students in GSOC?<\/b>&#8220;?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/soc\/2008\/faqs.html#0.1_goals\">GSOC FAQ<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google Summer of Code has several goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all;<\/li>\n<li>Inspire young developers to begin participating in open source development;<\/li>\n<li>Help open source projects identify and bring in new developers and committers;<\/li>\n<li>Provide students in Computer Science and related fields the opportunity to do work related to their academic pursuits during the summer (think &#8220;flip bits, not burgers&#8221;);<\/li>\n<li>Give students more exposure to real-world software development scenarios (e.g., distributed development, software licensing questions, mailing-list etiquette).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem is that those goals are clearly conflicting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you think that &#8220;get useful code written&#8221; is more important than &#8220;get fresh blood in Debian&#8221;, it is stupid to choose students that are not existing contributors to Debian. It&#8217;s a much better idea to choose people that already know Debian very well, so they will be very efficient.<\/li>\n<li>If you think that &#8220;get fresh blood in Debian&#8221; is more important than &#8220;get useful code written&#8221;, it is stupid to choose students that are already contributing to Debian. You should choose outsiders, of course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another problem is that in the past, some students that were also debian contributors had problems organizing themselves: they used some of their GSOC time to work on their usual Debian tasks, leading to results that were a bit disappointing. But it&#8217;s possible that this is mainly a management problem (however, mentoring people takes a lot of time, and only students are paid, not their mentors).<\/p>\n<p>How do you deal with that in your project?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting discussion about Google Summer of Code going on debian-devel@. The question can be summarized as &#8220;Should we allow current Debian contributors to be students in GSOC?&#8220;? The GSOC FAQ says: Google Summer of Code has several goals: Get more open source code created and released for the benefit of all; Inspire young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jabber","category-planetdebian","category-planetgnomefr","category-planetubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}