Garrett: Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

Posted Jan 23, 2016 15:05 UTC (Sat) by krake (guest, #55996)
In reply to: Garrett: Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation by piotrjurkiewicz
Parent article: Garrett: Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

> Whereas most GSoC projects are true programming tasks.

Not due to selection of proposals but because that is the condition by the program's sponsor, Google.

> And the most rigorous one is gender and sexual orientation...

Actually GSoC has a much more rigorous base selection criteria by requiring applicants to be enrolled at an accredited university or college.

Which applies to a far smaller percentage of the overall population, no?