Re: gEDA-user: Bad news about gEDA's participation in GSoC 2009

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Hello --
> 
> I am unhappy to announce that the gEDA Project's application to the
> Google Summer of Code was turned down this year.
> 
> This year, Google says that they are accepting fewer mentoring orgs so
> that they may concentrate on inceasing the number of students staffing
> those projects which they accept. 

Hmmm.... the top of the new list, the ones new to GSOC, include many
web, media, communication developments -- kinda like Google...

I guess Google feels less techie electronics is OK in a recession...
and probably for any time they care about, being a software oriented
company using only very generic hardware, or large well financed
arrays of any hardware that is custom for their apps.

but they miss that gEDA tools have a creativity amplifying effect on into the next boom indefinitely.

John Griessen
-- 
Ecosensory   Austin TX


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