Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015

Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by houshuang on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @07:18AM (#9137274)

I love Mozilla, but it would seem that they have a large enough budget to pay for any student interns they want themselves? Happy to see this go to smaller, less funded open source projects.

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by Manishearth on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @07:44AM (#9137368)

Intern has a different aura to it, many students find GSoC to be an easier thing to try than an internship (plus, work from home!).

An "open summer of code" funded by Mozilla and other orgs themselves sounds like an interesting idea (one that's being informally bounced around on IRC in more than one place)

But yeah, I like that they're focusing on smaller projects.

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by Morpholemew on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:09AM (#9137451)

Not just informally; X.org has actually implemented this idea: http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC/

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by Manishearth on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @10:54AM (#9138279)

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was talking in a Mozilla-specific POV. Thanks for the link!

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by wodenokoto on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @11:11AM (#9138407)

Mozilla has winter of security, which is basically GSoC for security related projects.

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by melling on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @07:46AM (#9137373)

In fact, they should have their own "Summer of Code".

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by agumonkey on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @07:58AM (#9137416)

Codezilla

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by andruby on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:27AM (#9137506)

"Zummer of Moz"?

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by Ygg2 on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @09:46AM (#9137846)

Why not have something other than Summer? No break?

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by maaku on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @01:07PM (#9139353)

It's meant to be for CS students.

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by hobarrera on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @07:37PM (#9141934)

Nothern-hemisphere CS students, since summer is on the opposite time of the year for the other hemisphere.

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by Ygg2 on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @03:56AM (#9143321)

Don't CS students get two breaks? One in summer and one at start of year (albeit shorter).

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by balladeer on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:36AM (#9137540)

GitHub has been selected though.

(Btw Good to see OSM, XMPP, and Tox there.)

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by knd775 on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @09:48AM (#9137856)

I was hoping Tox wouldn't get selected again...

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by whyever on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @11:05AM (#9138362)

Care to say why?

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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015 by meragrin on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:44AM (#9137567)

Even if they didn't have a large enough budget, they have enough exposure, popularity, and structure to draw in people to contribute for free.

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