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On 16/01/2023 14:28, Ian Rogers wrote:
> Hi Till,
> 
> This is great news! Could you clarify the "newcomers in free software"
> a bit. Is it the same as last year? Last year we had somebody working
> in a closed source environment who applied because they had only a few
> years experience and had never sent patches to LKML. We also had
> somebody working for a tech giant but in a managerial role, who wanted
> to work on some open source software. Beside the challenge of trying
> to fit open source work in with a day job, we decided that the
> candidates didn't fit the idea of newcomer and so weren't eligible for
> the GSoC funding. We offered to help them outside of GSoC but none
> accepted that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian

"Newcomer" means newcomer in free software coding not newcomer in IT in 
general, so people who have only worked in closed-source before or 
people who were only managing in open-source but not coding are 
eligible. I assume, but do not know, that Googlers will google for free 
software coding activity (e. g. commits in project repositories) to 
determine whether a contributor is eligible.

There is also a rule that one contributor can be GSoC contributor a 
maximum of 2 times, but I do not know whether this is also valid for 
newcomers, as with the first participation you got already free software 
experience and a certain commit history. Perhaps a 1-year experience is 
still tolerated.

So your last year's candidates should be eligible.

    Till