<div dir="ltr">Jody,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Can this be handled by our GSOC organizers? As I understand each instructor had some funds available from participation, there was a discussion earlier in the year on options for using those funds.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This 500$ comes as a separate budget item in the GSoC payment. Some years ago, mentors would submit directly to Google a request to finance a travel stipend for a student they thought deserving, and google would choose the students among the organizations. Each organization should submit 1 request for 1 student, but it wasn't that smooth also to verify that because mentors would act independently proposing names without coordination. Since (AFAIR) last year, Google send those money directly to orgs to be used for this scope. Unfortunately, last year we missed to use it so the money just became part of the general OSGeo budget as well as the rest of the GSoC budget.</div><div>For what concerns the whole GSoC budget, this year <span style="font-size:12.8px">I tried to coordinate mentors to come up with a common proposal on how to spend the money, however, some mentors expressed the wish that those money are granted to the projects that participated this year in GSoC. Some others didn't express any opinion. I'm aware that not all the projects have a treasurer and a PSC, some projects are not even part of OSGeo and participated as guests, so rather than acting as a spokesperson for all mentors, I suggested that they contact the board directly as PSC of their projects and negotiate with OSGeo the terms how the money should be spent / transferred. OSGeo has the last word on this matter because the money is not "mentor stipend" but "organization reimbursement", it's granted to the org and not to the single mentors. So OSGeo could for example ask the projects to indicate how they intend to spend those money, like normally does for the rest of the budget. But this is really up to the board to decide, and it's up to the mentors to claim and leverage their proposals.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks,</span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail-m_-2301028876021892003gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail-h5">On 8 November 2017 at 05:38, Margherita Di Leo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diregola@gmail.com" target="_blank">diregola@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail-h5"><div dir="ltr">Dear OSGeo Board,<div><br></div><div>I would like to propose a motion to be discussed at your earliest convenience. I'm not sure how to do that, I assume I can write it in this mailing list?</div><div>This is my proposal.</div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">In the payment issued by Google for GSoC 2017, they accounted 500 USD as a grant for GSoC students mobility. This money should be used as a travel grant for GSoC students that would like to present their work to conferences. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I would like to propose that OSGeo use this money for the geospatioal devroom at FOSDEM 2018 [1,2,3]. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Why </span><span class="gmail-m_-2301028876021892003m_-6822371122575904026gmail-m_-2616567746895129241gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">FOSDEM</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">? Because for several years I tried to invite GSoC students to present, they replied that they could consider it only if there was a sort of economical aid. </span><span class="gmail-m_-2301028876021892003m_-6822371122575904026gmail-m_-2616567746895129241gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">FOSDEM</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> is a free event and the amount of $500 should decently cover accommodation and travel at least within Europe, but would make it also possible to join from outside Europe with a small addition from their own pocket.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Please let me know should you need any additional information / clarification.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thank you in advance</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Kind regards,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[1] <a href="https://fosdem.org/2018/" target="_blank">https://fosdem.org/2018/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[2] <a href="https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002633.html" target="_blank">https://lists.fosdem.org/p<wbr>ipermail/fosdem/2017-October/0<wbr>02633.html</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">[3] Last year's geospatial devroom: <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/geospatial/" target="_blank">https://archive.fosde<wbr>m.org/2017/schedule/track/<wbr>geospatial/</a></div><span class="gmail-m_-2301028876021892003HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail-m_-2301028876021892003m_-6822371122575904026gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#666666">Margherita Di Leo</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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