Brainstorm ML and Ubuntu's own summer of code?

[Nicolas Deschildre]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Alan McGovern <alan.mcgovern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I'm speaking as someone who has taken part in the SoC as both a
>  student and a mentor. From what i've seen, a SoC project always ends
>  with the possibility of your code being bundled as part of a
>  distribution or as part of an existing application. There's also the
>  added bonus that you will be paid to do that. Taking mono as an
>  example, at least 2/3's of the 2006 projects ended up shipping in
>  various Linux distros or as part of mono itself. A similar percentage
>  of the 2007 projects resulted in actively shipped code aswell. I'd
>  like to think that this is one of the primary motivation factors in
>  the SoC, with money being the added bonus. So the ubuntu SoC doesn't
>  offer anything more than the google SoC does.

It does not really offer anything more for the mentorees. But for the
organizer, it obviously offers a much greater flexibility: dates
adapted to the development cycle, choice of the number, contents and
type of tasks (not only code tasks), control over the processes,...

Nicolas