Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

[Greg KH <gregkh linuxfoundation org>]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 02:07:46PM +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 08:54:14AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Is there some specific objection you have with GNOME handling interns of
> > projects that are not specific to GNOME?
>
> That is another problem.
>
> What Philip Van Hoof said is that GNOME should focus less on outreach,
> and more on software. If our software is excellent, including our
> developer experience, the outreach will be done by itself,
> automatically. GNOME is already a well-known free desktop, it shouldn't
> be needed to spend lots of money on marketing.

That's one theory, do you have any numbers to back it up to show that
this theory works?

Hint, I have numbers showing the exact opposite for other projects... :)

thanks,

greg "theory is good, but experience and numbers is better" k-h