<quote who="Evan Prodromou" date="Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:52:39PM -0400"> > Hey, so, I'm looking for some college students to help out on a couple > of Open Content projects (launching non-English versions of Vinismo and > Keiki), and it got me thinking about a bigger kind of effort. > > What if students could get a stipend to work on Open Knowledge or Open > Content projects on their summer off? They wouldn't need to have > technical or programming skills -- editorial, graphical, video and other > skills would be more relevant. Language, marketing and organizing skills > would come in useful, too -- for projects like the wikis I mention above. > > It's waaaay too late to make this work for 2008, but it would be > interesting to do for Summer 2009. It would probably be possible to get, > say, $50K in donations and have 10 $5K stipends granted.
SJ Klein has been working on this as well. You should talk. He's CCed here. Later, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mako.cc/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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