Comments on: Cheap Yet Laudable Extravagance

By: Sebastiaan de With

Sebastiaan de With — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:11:44 +0000

Oh, I don’t know, offering a free blog redesign? ;)

By: Jeff Dlouhy

Jeff Dlouhy — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:11:44 +0000

Definitely a sweet program. By participating in GSoC I’ll be able to contribute to app I really like (Camino), as well being able to hack Obj-C and Cocoa all summer long :-).

By: cjwl

cjwl — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:21:49 +0000

Yea, this is a very cool program, I was hoping to take advantage of it this year for Cocotron but I had to reallocate key personnel to the iPhoneatron project.

By: Elliott Harris

Elliott Harris — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:51:31 +0000

It really is something special. Not only does it provide us with some very talented people with great ideas, but it really gives us a big drive towards development. It’s something every developer, mentor or not, can really get behind, and definitely brings some inspiration to the whole team.

Unfortunately, Adium got a little hosed with SoC last year, as two of our big projects were based around Java, and Apple deprecated the bridge, but things are looking very good this year. Hopefully we can integrate and use things more quickly, as we are just getting around to the “SoC 2006″ version of Adium.

They really have got a wonderful program, and I hope they keep doing it for a long time.

By: Taybin

Taybin — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:11:27 +0000

It’s great that there are still companies that are willing to invest in the next generation of programmers.

And speaking as a mentor last year, it’s a terrific experience for everyone involved.

By: mj

mj — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:07:06 +0000

At the moment we’re still working hard on bringing in the pennies but I’ve told the dev guys that I want to see a list of open source projects that they’ll give 20% of time too. That’s an idea I was fond of and Google showed me the way. We’re only a small company but we can afford 20% projects. (and yes, the devs have to submit their projects for approval. And the product has to be mac compatible (as in running on *n*x and not just Windows). And we have some clauses to do with which of the mny FLOSS licenses it can be under (We’re BSD bigots).