Re: Call for Debian projects and mentors in Google Summer of Code 2026

Ansgar 🙀 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Sat, 2025-12-06 at 11:50 +0100, Dominik George wrote:
> > Debian is applying as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer
> > of Code 2026[1].
> 
> I object to the participation.
> 
> As much as it might help Debian, we urgently need to stop helping Google to play a part in everything.

Why do we need to do that?

Do we need to also reject other contributions besides monetary
donations? For example code contributions by Google as a company or
individual employees, both in Debian and upstream projects?

Do we need to stop accepting donations only from Google or also from
other companies?

Ansgar
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