Re: GNOME SoC Call for Ideas

[Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org>]

Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Vincent Untz wrote:
>> Le mercredi 19 mars 2008, à 14:28 -0600, Stormy Peters a écrit :
>>> I was wondering if it makes sense to recruit students to help with some of
>>> the things that are planned for the to-be-hired Biz Dev person?
>> Unfortunately, the Summer of Code rules explicitly mention that the
>> project should be a coding project.
>>
>> But that's an interesting idea. Maybe, if there's enough interest, we
>> could run some SoC-like contest for things like this. We'd probably need
>> to clearly define the projects, though.
> 
> I would also like to help with Biz Dev type mentoring and project
> definition.

And it goes without saying that I don't think we need Google's
permission to do this :) The Foundation might consider taking on interns
for something like this, even, if we had someone employed full-time who
could supervise.

Cheers,
Dave.

-- 
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
bolsh gnome org