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Summer of Camino follows progress of a Mac browser code donor from UK

Desmond Elliott, a student majoring in Computer Science at a prestigious university in the UK is doing work on the Mozilla Camino web browser for the Macintosh.

He is slightly compensated, presumably, by one of the small grants Google has set aside for people who undertake to do open source projects and successfully complete them.

He also gets major intrinsic satisfaction, I expect, from being able to practice his future trade in a way that benefits other people and proves/improves his own skill.

Summer of Camino blogger Desmond Elliott:

I am a 22 year old Computer Science student at Edinburgh University. I am working on the Google Summer of Code Program with Mozilla on the Camino web browser.

It seems rather interesting that the companies this young programming student's efforts indirectly benefit - Google, Mozilla, and Apple - all 3 are headquartered in California, over on the west coast of the United States. Yet he himself is quartered in Edinburg.

There ought to be some way that such a munificent hard worker could get a suntan out of all this hard work.

posted by John Collins @ 12:36 PM