It would be great to have some kind of statistics on how GSoC helps projects longer term. Do students stick around? Does the code written actually get incorporated into releases? Does it in fact contribute to the mission of Community Development, or is it just a nice summer job for these students?
To be clear, I don't question the value of GSoC. What I'm curious about is whether these people actually end up participating in our communities. My experience with GSoC outside of Apache has been that the students don't stick around, and so the enormous time and effort put into GSoC, while it helps the skills and career of these students, didn't help the project longer term. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
