GSOC 2018 - no slots for D

[bauss]

On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 02:38:28 UTC, psychoticRabbit 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 02:12:10 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 01:59:16 UTC, psychoticRabbit 
>> wrote:
>>> Second, I don't get it. Are you saying D Foundation currently 
>>> only provides such to students of UPB?
>>
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2016/12/05/the-d-language-foundations-scholarship-program/
>>
>> You gotta start somewhere ;-)
>
> ok.. but I've never heard of UPB. Where is Romania anyway? Is 
> that one of those little islands in the pacific?
>
> In any case, I think it would be great if the foundation setup 
> a process whereby everyday people can contribute funds to 
> projects. Those projects need to be approved and costed. Funds 
> upto those 'per project costs' get accepted, then contributions 
> are no longer accepted for that project - (otherwise 
> contributions will exceed the cost of the project).
>
> The projects once approved, could be published for people to 
> see, and then people decide if they want to contribute. Then 
> the commuinity of contributors essentially get to decide which 
> projects are worthwhile - i.e those that get funded by 
> contributors.
>
> Essentially, crowd sourcing, and stop replying on big 
> corporations to decide what is worthwhile and what is not.

Romania is in Eastern Europe.