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author | Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com> | 2017-06-12 14:18:20 -0700 |
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committer | Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com> | 2017-06-12 14:18:20 -0700 |
commit | 4ea6bb70a5ad575ea737a4bd2371072b0246b225 (patch) | |
tree | e65ff781dbaeb0a12bb1b662a0e61cbfb2a4b03b /XorgEVoC.mdwn | |
parent | 5b16eaa402123f041c8e71d2ed5f8b90bd6ee11f (diff) |
evoc: Explicitly note that international students are permitted
I think we assumed it went without saying, but the question came up this
week so may as well make it clearly noted.
Technically, GSoC is only open to students in countries not embargoed in
the US. Our requirements are a bit more simply stated - we need to be
able to pay you. (In practice it probably works out to the same.)
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diff --git a/XorgEVoC.mdwn b/XorgEVoC.mdwn index e0affeb9..2406d255 100644 --- a/XorgEVoC.mdwn +++ b/XorgEVoC.mdwn @@ -4,7 +4,11 @@ For the last several years, X.Org was a participating mentoring organization in However, for whatever reason some students with good project proposals who would like to participate in GSoC have been unable to do so. Typically, this was because Google funded fewer high-quality GSoC proposals than we had available in a given year, or because the rigid timing of GSoC was entirely incompatible with a student's calendar. -Rather than lose out on getting students working on X, the X.Org Foundation Board voted in 2008 to initiate a program known as the X.Org Endless Vacation of Code (EVoC) program. The basic terms and conditions of this program are quite similar to Google's GSoC. The key differences are that: +Rather than lose out on getting students working on X, the X.Org +Foundation Board voted in 2008 to initiate a program known as the X.Org +Endless Vacation of Code (EVoC) program. The basic terms and conditions +of this program are quite similar to Google's GSoC. We welcome +international students and GSoC alumni. The key differences are that: 1. an EVoC mentorship can be initiated at any time during the calendar year, 1. the Board can fund as many of these mentorships as it sees fit. |