Symmetry Autumn of Code
Mike Parker
aldacron at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 13:41:41 UTC 2018
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.
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