Re: GSoC projects: lessons learned

> I feel we have more failures than successes, but I may be pessimistic.
What else have we had?

Off the top of my head.. hannosch, iElectric, zupo, supton, tisto,
chaoflow, pigeonflight.. These people aren't all from gsoc, but have
benefited from them.

There are two reasons to do GSoC, code and people. I think we benefit from
people much more than code.

So, take chaoflow, for example. His work on PAU didn't make it in to core,
but it integrated him into the community and he's organised very successful
sprints.

For the record, I don't think we often benefit from the direct code
contributions, but by my estimates about 1/6 of contributions in the last
year were from former GSoC students.

But, for the record, both of this year's students did well, in 2011 Domen
did good work on TinyMCE. Timo worked on p.a.commenting, work was done on
improving PFG, etc.

There are useful things that have come out of GSoC but that's nothing
compared to the people its helped us attract and retain.

Matt

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