On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Alan McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm speaking as someone who has taken part in the SoC as both a > student and a mentor. From what i've seen, a SoC project always ends > with the possibility of your code being bundled as part of a > distribution or as part of an existing application. There's also the > added bonus that you will be paid to do that. Taking mono as an > example, at least 2/3's of the 2006 projects ended up shipping in > various Linux distros or as part of mono itself. A similar percentage > of the 2007 projects resulted in actively shipped code aswell. I'd > like to think that this is one of the primary motivation factors in > the SoC, with money being the added bonus. So the ubuntu SoC doesn't > offer anything more than the google SoC does.
It does not really offer anything more for the mentorees. But for the organizer, it obviously offers a much greater flexibility: dates adapted to the development cycle, choice of the number, contents and type of tasks (not only code tasks), control over the processes,... Nicolas -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
