On 10/04/09 at 18:05 +0200, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > That's right. But DDs are free to apply to other projects, as are > > contributors to other projects free to apply to Debian. > > DDs are free to go where they want, but I wouldn't be happy with a rule, > written or unsaid, that banned DDs outright from Debian. > We have a Gnome board member in the shortlist. Did you notice it ? :)
I don't have a problem with people from project X being students in GSOC for project Y (with X != Y), even if I would prefer that true newcomers were preferred. It's an interesting way to promote collaboration between projects. > > What could be considered fair is, if DDs are involved as students in > > GSOC, to give the money to Debian instead of giving it to the students > > (one way or another ; it doesn't need to be a direct Google -> SPI > > transfer). The money could then benefit the project as a whole (through > > Debconf sponsorship, for example). And it's already the case for > > mentors: they are not paid, but the $500 (I think) are given to the > > project (or to Debconf, I think it depends on the mentor). > > That's a novel idea. It's worth discussing, but it's way too late at > this point for this year. Ah? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
