[maemo-developers] Maemo not a List of Mentoring Organizations Participating in Google Summer of Code 2008

[From: Ryan Pavlik]

Darius Jack wrote:
> Noop.
> Completely wrong.
> Just read more about Google Summer of Code from
> http://code.google.com/soc/2008/
> "
> All participating mentoring organizations for 2008 have provided 
> additional information for their would-be students, including a list 
> of sample project ideas.
> "
> Being listed as a mentoring organization has nothing to do with past 
> interest of students in activities of a mentoring organization in-spe,
> as you firstly get listed as a mentoring organization and than
> attract potential students.
> $4,500 stipend offered by Google is great chance for any student and 
> much more than N810 apiece.
>
> What Google said:
> "
> If you find you have a great idea to improve one of the projects you 
> see listed, why not start working on it now?
> "
> You are right, Google Summer of Code attracts more mentors than students
> "
> /Google Summer of Code/ 2008 is on! Over the past three years, the 
> program has brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 
> 90 countries worldwide, all for the love of code. We look forward to 
> welcoming more new contributors and projects this year.
> "
> But there is a chance to chan ge things for the better and discuss 
> that issue with Google.
> On the other hand Google with Google Maps application is first-class 
> and first hand competitor to Nokia Tablet as a navigation device.
>
> Anyway, attracting students to Maemo is attracting new customers to 
> buy more N810s, so, in our hard times on Wall Street, Nokia not Maemo, 
> should be interested in promotion of its great Nokia Tablet in any 
> form of promotion, provided for free.
>
> Lost chance is lost chance
> and any stipend granted by Google to a prospective student is lost 
> forever.
>
> Darius
I wouldn't go quite that far - there are a lot of downstream projects, 
and a mighty good idea for some of them would be to produce or improve a 
Maemo port.  As a platform, Maemo has a lot to gain indirectly from 
improvements to other projects.  (Don't forget the upstream projects, 
too!)  Sure, it might require a bit more initiative for the students to 
find or think of the projects, but GSoC is about finding students with 
the initiative to get involved and hopefully stay involved - exactly 
what we're looking for.

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Ryan Pavlik
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