[wplug] Students get paid to code

Chester R. Hosey Chester.Hosey at gianteagle.com
Thu Jun 9 16:37:23 EDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:10 -0400, James O'Kane wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Bill Moran wrote:
> > http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
> >
> > I'm just bummed that I'm not a student ...
> 
> I didn't read it extensively, but do they explicitly forbid non-students 
> from participating? I didn't see anything in the FAQ about it.
> 
> -james
> 

The second and third questions in the FAQ address this.

The FAQ doth state:

> Who is eligible?
> 
> Students. Since the point of the program is to create new developers,
> we're looking to find developers around the world who have considered
> creating free and open source software but who have not yet taken the
> plunge. We felt that concentrating on the student population was a
> good place to focus these efforts.
> 
> How do you define student?
> 
> Someone currently enrolled in or accepted into an accredited
> institution including but not necessarily limited to colleges,
> universities, masters programs, PhD programs and undergraduate
> programs.


Chet


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