From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HWdXp-0005ml-5R for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:10:53 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWdXn-0005iH-2a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:10:51 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWdXk-0005ao-VW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:10:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWdXk-0005aI-Mt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:10:48 -0500 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HWdVF-00010j-7X for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:08:13 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA573CF23078 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:51:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B81243CEF9F34 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:51:06 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:08:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <4100c4a70703272157p3101eb9ua791ad9eec679809@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703282108.09722.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000002, version=0.17.2 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: Two SoC ideas X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:10:51 -0000 On Wednesday 28 March 2007 13:06, Wei Shen wrote: > Your are absolutely right. But I am not an expert on Grub. Note that nobody is an expert from the beginning. > I think the most important that Google SoC gives a student is not money, > but a opportunity to participate and obtain help. IMHO, SoC has two significant effects. One of them is definitely money. Money is not a good motivation in software development, but money can allocate your time. The other is advertisement. Even if people do not go to a museum usually, some of them might feel that they want to go, when a special exhibition is planned. SoC has the same effect. Even if people do not look at free software development usually, some of them might feel that they want to participate, when this kind of event is planned. Besides these, however, I see no difference between mentees in SoC and other contributors. After all, our project is Free Software. You are always free to take part in our development, whenever you would feel to do so. Help? Yes, we do, as much as we can practically, regardless of whether you are paid or not. I don't know if Jeroen is planning to take some money or not, but I myself did not take any cent of money from last year's SoC. So, from my point of view, there was no real difference between a mentee and another contributor. So I have helped all contributors equally. Briefly, your contribution is welcome, no matter whatever you do with SoC. Okuji