Re: [Fsfe-uk] Grants programme

[Alex Hudson]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 16:10 +0000, Jason Clifford wrote:
> 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?

I think it probably targets the right people. 

I wonder whether employment is the right route though: once you get into
that, you get into a contractual relationship which is a lot more
serious, and you lose efficiency from a tax/NI point of view (that is,
the student would end up with less).

Anything which walks / quacks like employment is likely to fall into
that category also, I would think, unless anyone knows better?

But then, going back to a grant model means you're roughly competing
with the likes of Google SoC (since during summer they're out of
lectures).

Cheers,

Alex.