NonProfit

[YG]

Hi I am not a student nor a mentor, but represent a non profit
organization who would be interested in working with student as part
of this program to modify and enhance an existing open source
application, would this be possible under the parameters of this
program?
Thanks

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

You're welcome to work with any free application and to offer advice
to any GSoC student or mentor. You don't need Google's permission to
do so.

- Jordi G. H.

[Carol Smith]

Hi there, 

No, it wouldn't be. But it doesn't really matter: if you're currently working on a project in open source, why not just use the normal methods to recruit developers? You don't need GSoC to work on open source, as Jordi says. :-)

Cheers,

Carol

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 18 April 2013 10:14, YG <ygold...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I was wondering was whether you get requests from students who are
> looking for a project to work on, if so would I be able to tap into that
> resource?

If you want students to work on your project but you are not accepted
as a mentoring organisation under GSoC, you can't use GSoC resources
(e.g. Melange) to direct students to work on your organisation, nor
will Google pay students to work for your organisation.

If you want to attract people to work on your project otherwise, you
can always do so on your own.

- Jordi G. H.

[Matthew Wilkes]

Hi there,

On 2013-04-18 15:14, YG wrote:
> I work with a volunteer non profit Ambulance company which uses an open
> source platform for its software.
>
> The software is lacking some functionality which seems to be outside of
> the developers current scope.

It sounds to me like the appropriate way to handle this is to suggest to
the open source community that makes the application that if they took
part in GSoC themselves (or under another org) in future years you would
be interested in helping out by giving the student feedback, as well as
contributing ideas to their proposals list.

Matt

[Chris DiBona]

No, unless you are part of soc, this isn't a list for you.

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