Re: [Bf-committers] Google Summer of Code - 14th time! (Ton Roosendaal)

2019-02-27 Thread Fable Fox
Hi Ton, I do respect you but are you sure with what are you saying? >From google summer of code website "Spend your summer break writing code and learning about open source development while earning a stipend!" from gsoc student guide "Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that matc

Re: [Bf-committers] Google Summer of Code - 14th time! (Ton Roosendaal)

2019-02-27 Thread Ricardo Nunes
Considering GSOC "stipend" is 5500USD (4840'ish €) most students should be fairly comfortable with paying their rent, bills and food from the Stipend during the GSOC period. I think not calling it an internship on Google's side is more about avoiding all the legal implications any correlation with

Re: [Bf-committers] Google Summer of Code - 14th time! (Ton Roosendaal)

2019-02-28 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, I've been on the Google summit for mentor orgs and this topic often came by. Students will be introduced to open source and how to contribute to our project, but we don't have to teach them how to code or how do math or how to develop (3d) software in general. The attention students get

Re: [Bf-committers] Google Summer of Code - 14th time! (Ton Roosendaal)

2019-02-28 Thread Jim Bates
I so miss the 60-80hr work weeks of coding, managing, documenting, marketing, distributing of software products... do new volunteers get complementary protective underwear? As for what can be done better, during the transition to the next release there is going to be a lot of turmoil. As I am not