Re: [Fsfe-uk] Grants programme

[Jason Clifford]

I've been giving some more thought to this today and had an idea I'd like 
some feedback on.

Firstly it now seems to me that the idea of a grants programme in the 
format currently envision just isn't working for whatever reason. Maybe 
it's because, as others have suggested, there just isn't enough money to 
interest people.

Looking around at the more prominent people in the UK Free Software 
communities (well the Linux communities anyway) it seems that almost all 
became involved while at school/college/uni. Many if not all were writing 
code for or otherwise contributing to Free Software projects.

How about the idea of part time employment for college/uni students to do 
just that - write code or otherwise contribute to FS projects?

If I budget to pay each of them £4,500 during the year UKFSN could do this 
for 2 students in 2007 rising to 3 or 4 in 2008 and about 10 in 2009.

These figures are based upon fairly conservative estimates of UKFSN income 
from ADSL over the next 3 years.

Any thoughts?

Jason
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