On Sun Mar 18 19:51:00 EDT 2012, j...@jfloren.net wrote: > Kickstarter works because the people on Kickstarter are interested in > whatever the project is producing. A book, a video game, other > products. Plan 9 has a small community and an even smaller number of > people who actually use it. Unfortunately, I don't think there's > enough money there to pay for 1 GSoC-equivalent student, especially > considering that the project may turn out to be something the > contributors have very little interest in. > > GSoC works great for Google because they have the money & organization > to do it. It builds good-will for them and helps them scout potential > employees while also (ideally) improving open source projects. The > only thing 9fans has out of that list is the interest in improving an > open source project :)
i'm not ready to dismiss this idea. there are student, project, mentor tuples i'd be willing to pony up gsoc-level money for. - erik
