Keith, I'm not sure if you were aware of this, but the GSoC program organizers have in the past expressed a prefer that related projects "band together" with shared applications. That makes less work for them.
I recommend we tell GSoC in our application that we will entertain projects using any and all illumos distributions. OpenIndiana is one of several good choices. I see no harm in mentioning their inclusion. Would you be more comfortable if we mentioned other open-source distros as well? Gordon On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Keith Wesolowski <keith.wesolow...@joyent.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:13:42PM -0500, Albert Lee wrote: > >> After talking to others, I've been convinced that it's a good idea to >> continue participating this year, and I'm willing to be the organisation >> admin provided we try to size projects appropriately to account for risk, >> testing and review. I'm working on the application. >> >> If anyone has strong objections let me know. If OI is interested in >> applying as well we should coordinate to see if a combined application is >> appropriate. Slots can be divided amongst the respective mentors. > > Sounds good; thanks, Albert. I'd prefer very strongly to have OI apply > separately if they want to participate. A combined application > encourages the belief that OI occupies a privileged position in the > community relative to other distributions, which as we all know is not > the case. I also fear that it might make it difficult to convey the > right message around what illumos is and the type of work we're > interested in sponsoring (namely, OS work). For the same reasons, I > would also oppose a combined application with any other distribution. _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev