[ale] Google Summer of Code

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 12:37:01 EDT 2011


On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Very nice.
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>> At $5K per student, that's a very nice giveback to the community
>> Google is doing.
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> It's also a bit of insight into what Google thinks is important (for
> whatever reason). But, yes, good give-back process.

The insight may be less than you think.

They are effectively doing block grants to sponsor orgs.  So openSUSE
is one of the 100+ sponsor orgs.

What specific projects openSUSE chooses to select is up to them I believe.

Greg


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