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

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
>> A gsoc program that does not
>> support activity development or activity toolchains would be
>> dramatically different.
>
> It would be quite different. Is this bad? OLPC, SL, and the software
> projects they work on were also in a dramatically different state a year
> ago. Can you help me understand your concerns with the current SL GSoC plan?

Something which changed a lot is the availability of the core
development team to mentor external people. We used to be on crazy
deadlines and all focused on doing customer critical work because of
our employment status. The top priority these days is on growing the
team and obsolete ourself.

Marco