Google has chosen the mentoring organizations that will be participating in Google Summer of Code 2007. Most of the usual suspects made the list, as well as a few newcomers, including Haiku. Google is now accepting student applications.
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FreeBSD is present, as always. Most of the past students who worked with freebsd under SoC are still writting and working on the project.
Several important pieces of software were created by the persons (mentors and students) who worked under SoC.
More info:
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode-2006.html
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode-2005.html
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Yes, it's cool to see FreeBSD in there again. One of the recent FreeBSD Summer of Code projects was csup, a C rewrite of cvsup, which has turned out to be a nice improvement. Another one was porting Xen.
Great stuff. This Summer of Code project is a very cool thing.
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Each student gets $4500. Last time I checked that wasn't considered "free". Read up before making assumptions.
Exactly!
Moreover, only a small portion of the projects is mentored by Google itself, most projects are for the benefit of independent free/open source projects.
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The entire premise of your argument is flawed. This is not Google asking people to slave away on THEIR code, this is Google paying people to help projects that would otherwise be volunteer-based development anyway.
This can help Google, the students in question, and the OSS projects in several ways that benefits all, and nobody loses. It can even benefit entirely unrelated corporations...
1. Google can make use of the technologies built by the OSS projects.
2. Google may offer jobs to those students whose work and skills stand out during this process.
3. The students' skills are brought to the attention of the OSS projects, Google, and possibly other organizations looking to hire.
4. The students make some extra money on something that they may have volunteered their free time for anyway.
5. OSS projects get some paid-for resources and publicity.
Etc. etc.
I don't understand how this can viewed upon as "Corporate exploitation". But your viewpoint almost reminds me of Penn & Teller's statement about prostitution: "Why is it illegal to sell something that is otherwise perfectly legal to give away?" In this case, the students participating might have already been working on these OSS projects during their spare time, and now they might even get paid for it.
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Seriously your talking absolute rubbish. I mean how is sponsoring people to work on one of my favourite operating systems Haiku corporate exploitation?
Now about "almost free" the code is under GPL, there are no conditions. Sorry, I'm really think you have no basis for your argument.
Yes, google probably run loads of open source software internally, but improving open source software benefits everyone. It's not like there paying Corel to develop Corel Draw 14 or something.
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To all those who remark that it's nice to see certain projects participating or that other projects should join SoC, I ask why should software development happen in such a monolithic and hierarchical form? Obviously the students get some cash out of it, but still why must development be organized in this specific way? Where are the other SoC's?
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What do you mean? Anyone getting SoC money is hardly in a position to wine. Google is doing charity/good will work, and if it doesn't fit your ideals so then don't bother. If you wanna give away 4500$ you're allowed to put up whatever guidelines you wish to. Now it's google, so let them do it the way they wanna do it.
As long as this brings usable code I'm all for it, be it FreeBSD, Haiku or whatever
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