[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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