Dahnielson wrote :
Btw, the CS department at my university use to run their own version summer of code (basically paying students to work on projects they propose as long as the work can be used to show of and in marketing the university) so I hope to have my Maratis application accepted and being able to contribute full time during the summer.
That would be great, because you are doing a very good job.
]]>For example an open source game project using maratis like what blender did with elephant dream or big buck bunny, as I'm not sure people will be ready to support pure software development only.
For my part, it could allow me to prioritize this time over other professional work (as I need to pay my rent),
of course the project need to attract enough donators to succeed, a good project, a good campain etc.
It's a tought.
]]>I will try to apply to this : http://sfconservancy.org
Yes, that's a good option. K-3D, a fairly small project I used to contribute to (and gave me a jump start on this C++ thing), was set up through them to be able to accept contributions and run GSoC.
Btw, the CS department at my university use to run their own version summer of code (basically paying students to work on projects they propose as long as the work can be used to show of and in marketing the university) so I hope to have my Maratis application accepted and being able to contribute full time during the summer.
]]>I don't know if this is enough to apply to GSoC though.
Sponk
Edit: Post got cut off :-/
]]>We could maybe ask a third party organisation like http://www.copyleftgames.org/ to host a Maratis summer of code project.
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