[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Google Summer of Code 2009 is a go!

[Nirav Patel]

Students working on Sugar related projects don't have to be restricted
to Sugar Labs.  Two GSoC 2008 students worked on OLPC projects through
other mentoring organizations; one through Python and the other I
can't recall.  If there aren't enough OLPC specific projects, it would
still make sense for OLPC students to work on Sugar projects.  Though,
judging by the number of quality proposals last year, I don't forsee
there being any shortage of project ideas.

Nirav

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org> wrote:
> Yes, but in 2007 "they" were "us", no?
>
> Thanks, this is helpful information (I didn't know the status of
> OLPC's previous GSoC work).  I don't see why there is any reason to
> presume that OLPC would NOT be interested in 2009 GSoC, but I don't
> know of any active ideas/proposals kicking around here.  I would
> strongly encourage Sugar Labs ideas, however - to Ben's point, there
> should be no confusion.  The only things I could imagine (and it's
> just imagining) coming from OLPC would be ancillary ideas (school
> server add-ons?) that would be quite distinct from XO/Sugar software.
> Go for it!
>
>        - Ed