Re: [Fsfe-uk] Grants programme

[Stuart Yeates]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 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).

Could we structure it as a scholarship? Most universities / large
colleges should already have facilities for handling scholarships.

cheers
stuart