[drupal-devel] How Summer of Code will be used to promote Drupal

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Boris Mann wrote:

>
> On 30-Jun-05, at 11:07 AM, Robert Douglass wrote:
>
>
> > I wanted to let you all know how the Summer of Code money we get
> > will be used, in case you were wondering. Since we will be eligible
> > for up to $5,500.00 this is a good opportunity to do some nice things.
> >
> > First we will be sponsoring a theme competition with a $1000 first
> > prize and a $500 second prize. I'll announce this on Drupal.org in
> > the next week or so but you can already start thinking in the back
> > of your minds what technical requirements new themes need to meet
> > in order to be accepted and how we can easily verify these things.
> >
>
> A chunk of this money should be reserved for setting up a foundation
> (s?). I'm going to look at the requirements for this in Canada in the
> next couple of days with a lawyer.

Wrong way round, I think. Setting up some foundation or other institution
might be a prerequisite to get the money at all.

German saying: Man soll das fell desBaeren nicht verteilen, befor man ihn
hat.

Cheers,
	Gerhard