[OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

Sat Aug 26 10:11:15 PDT 2017

I believe that GSoC people should make a proposal to be discussed at board
level, of course hints from everyone is welcome...

Maxi

Il 26 ago 2017 7:02 PM, "Marc Vloemans" <marcvloemans1 at gmail.com> ha
scritto:

> Dear Vicky,
>
> Before going into your question; decisions to spend money on codesprints
> or student conference attendance has not been part of the Marketing
> Committee remit.
>
> Perhaps the Board can decide on the what/where/how of this type of support?
>
> Kind regards,
> Marc Vloemans
>
>
> Op 26 aug. 2017 om 18:51 heeft Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
>
> 
> Hello all
> This thread started on the osgeo mentors list.
> By suggestion of Margherita I tried to move it to marketing, but it never
> arrived, so I am sending to discuss..
> Sorry I can not give you links to the different responses, it so happens
> that OSGeo google mentors mailing list is private (for what ever reason).
>
> Please have a look.
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Margherita Di Leo <dileomargherita at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo GSoC Mentors] Hello all
> To: osgeo-gsoc-mentors at googlegroups.com
>
>
> Dear Vicky, Maxi, all,
>
> The money that OSGeo gets from Google is this year 500USD per student.
> Before i was admin and also before i acted as a mentor, this matter was
> discussed among the mentors at the time, whether to distribute the money
> among the mentors or to destinate them to another use, being this decision
> up to the organizations participating in gsoc. As far as i can tell, the
> problem of distributing the money to the mentors was to make a lot of small
> payments of which a considerable part would be eaten by bank transfers and
> currency changes. So it was agreed that the whole sum should be used to
> support code sprints instead.
> Now, if you guys think this should be discussed over again, you're
> welcome, but this would apply to next year's budget, and should be agreed
> upon by all mentors.
> My personal opinion: I think it more useful to use the budget for a common
> purpose rather than distributing it in small amounts, for example if you
> don't like it destinated to code sprints, would be to use it for financial
> support for students to attend conferences. For example at fosdem we have
> been organizing the geospatial session and i have every year invited our
> gsoc students to present their works but they couldn't afford the travel
> and accommodation.
> Google also gives 500USD for supporting students travel to conferences,
> you mentors will be asked to propose a name of a deserving gsoc student and
> an event that he or she would like to attend and in case of multiple names
> we will either split the aid or choose among the students. Last year if I
> remember correctly this call was made directly to mentors by google to
> provide names to them of deserving students, but i'm not aware if anyone of
> osgeo made the request or got funded.
> Back to your specific request, Vicky, I suggest you address this to the
> osgeo marketing committee , that is administering osgeo's budget, and they
> should be able to give you an answer.
>
>
>
> Il giorno ven 25 ago 2017 alle 17:22 Massimiliano Cannata <
> massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> ha scritto:
>
>> Hi Viky and all,
>> sorry to be direct (as always :-D) but..
>>
>> As far as I know, nobody ever used the mentor money.
>> They were always, silently (I hear some rumors on this), retained by
>> OSGeo as organization.
>>
>> If is possible to use that money, I think this should be clearly stated
>> along with the procedure to access it.
>> As long term istSOS mentor, i would also be interested in using these
>> money to support dissemination of the project.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Maxi
>>
>> 2017-08-25 17:09 GMT+02:00 Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> pgRouting team members, have being participating mentoring since even
>>> before I joined the team.
>>> There is a FOSS4G in Argentina, and we would like to use some of the
>>> money that was for mentors, to support that trip.
>>> Do you know how to get those funds? and/or the process to get those
>>> funds?
>>> The money is planned to be used in:
>>> - airplane fare for 1 person
>>> - hotel
>>> - pgRouting, OSGeo and OSGeo-GSoC poster promotionals
>>>
>>>
>>> Vicky
>>>
>>>
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