Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code
Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 05:10 schrieben Sie:
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
I’ve put myself as a potential mentor on the old Haskell SoC ticket (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/17). However, one or two years ago I was told that mentoring is a very time-consuming thing (and to my knowledge, you don’t get any payments for that, at least for Haskell projects). So if some other person wants to mentor a Grapefruit-based GUI or patch viewer project, I’d be very happy and would support this person the best I can.
Unless Google's changed things, the organization gets 500$ for each project. What the Darcs organization does with that, who knows.
Yes, who knows. The “Haskell orgainization” didn’t give a cent to the mentors, as far as I know. Am I wrong here?
It'd be a piddling amount as a stipend for the mentor, but...
…it would be much better than nothing. :-) Best wishes, Wolfgang
Unless Google's changed things, the organization gets 500$ for each project. What the Darcs organization does with that, who knows.
Yes, who knows. The Haskell organization didn't give a cent to the mentors, as far as I know. Am I wrong here?
That is correct. The haskell.org mentors decided to spend the money on hosting the haskell.org and community.haskell.org web sites and services, to benefit the whole community rather than just themselves. Regards, Malcolm
Am Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 12:37 schrieb Malcolm Wallace:
Unless Google's changed things, the organization gets 500$ for each project. What the Darcs organization does with that, who knows.
Yes, who knows. The Haskell organization didn't give a cent to the mentors, as far as I know. Am I wrong here?
That is correct. The haskell.org mentors decided to spend the money on hosting the haskell.org and community.haskell.org web sites and services, to benefit the whole community rather than just themselves.
Hmm, mentoring a project also benefits the whole community and not just the mentors. So even if mentors take the money, the community wins. Resources are limited. The more limited a resource is, the more painful it is to abandon parts of it. This is also true for my time. If keeping valuable time is better for me than getting a software project done then I chose to keep the time. Best wishes, Wolfgang
That is correct. The haskell.org mentors decided to spend the money on hosting the haskell.org and community.haskell.org web sites and services, to benefit the whole community rather than just themselves.
Hmm, mentoring a project also benefits the whole community and not just the mentors. So even if mentors take the money, the community wins.
Yes, that is a fair point. What the mentors choose to do with the money from Google is their choice - the wider community will benefit either way.
If keeping valuable time is better for me than getting a software project done then I chose to keep the time.
That's up to you, and that is fine. Open-source is a gift culture, but no-one is forced to give anything. Regards, Malcolm
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