On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 16:10 +0000, Jason Clifford wrote: > Looking around at the more prominent people in the UK Free Software > communities (well the Linux communities anyway) it seems that almost all > became involved while at school/college/uni. Many if not all were writing > code for or otherwise contributing to Free Software projects. > > How about the idea of part time employment for college/uni students to do > just that - write code or otherwise contribute to FS projects?
I think it probably targets the right people. I wonder whether employment is the right route though: once you get into that, you get into a contractual relationship which is a lot more serious, and you lose efficiency from a tax/NI point of view (that is, the student would end up with less). Anything which walks / quacks like employment is likely to fall into that category also, I would think, unless anyone knows better? But then, going back to a grant model means you're roughly competing with the likes of Google SoC (since during summer they're out of lectures). Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
