Symmetry Autumn of Code

[Mike Parker]

On Monday, 23 July 2018 at 13:02:33 UTC, Zheng (Vic) Luo wrote:

>
> Another issue of this program is that me, as an incoming 
> graduate in the U.S., are prohibited to "work" in my first 
> school year. (that law doesn't affect GSoC since summer is 
> considered as the second school year). I'm not sure whether 
> contributing to open-source projects is considered as "work" 
> here. There are some legal issues related. I'm looking forward 
> to some clarifications like 
> (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq#is_gsoc_considered_an_internship_a_job_or_any_form_of_employment) stating that this program is an "employment" or not.

I can't definitively answer whether not the U.S. government would 
consider it work, but I can tell you that neither Symmetry nor 
the D Language Foundation consider it employment; they view it 
just as Google does. I'll add that to the FAQ.