Spurring development (was Re: D : Not for me anymore)

[Bruno Medeiros]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Mike Parker wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> Mike Parker wrote:
>>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've thought about cash prizes and contests. I just had the nagging 
>>>>> feeling that the result would be a circus rather than serious 
>>>>> development.
>>>>
>>>> What about bounties? 
> 
> Getting some Google summer-of-coders might be good too.
> Where there any proposals for D this last time around?
> 
> --bb

Actually there where (one mine), but it was ineligible to participate.
The reason was: proposals must be submitted under the respective mentor
organizations, and if there is no mentor organization for the proposal,
it can be submitted to Google. However this year's SoC (unlike the
previous one) such applications without mentor organization must have a
high "academic research focus", and when I found that out it was too
late for new mentor organizations to sign up (one representing D was 
needed). :(
I think it's an opportunity that should not be missed next year.


-- 
Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D