<div dir="ltr"><div>I would likely vote for the funds going to the mentors. However, as for myself, even if we get the slots, I can't get the money legally anyway, so I would have to choose GRASS budget for my part. Depending on the particular GSoC project or mentor combo, identifying the main mentor may not be clear, so that would be a small hurdle in distributing, but I have seen other projects in similar context simply letting the main person (in our case the mentor submitting reviews) distribute the money as they see fit and I think we would manage that. As for putting it to the GRASS budget, I don't see a need to keep the money as dedicated to a particular purpose partially for simplicity and partially because we often focus the budget on "collaborative development activities" anyway.</div><div><br></div><div>Vaclav<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 9:45 PM Michael Barton <<a href="mailto:Michael.Barton@asu.edu">Michael.Barton@asu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I think this is a good plan.
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<div>Michael Barton</div>
<div>School of Human Evolution &Social Change</div>
<div>School of Complex Adaptive System Science</div>
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<div>Arizona State University</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Apr 29, 2021, at 6:07 PM, Helena Mitasova <<a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>I am not sure whether other members of PSC or other GSoC mentors received this but here is a message from Rajat regarding the potential GSoC mentor </div>
<div>compensation. Feel free to read the entire message below but here is the important part (note that I was at the board meeting </div>
<div>where this was discussed and the feedback from the board was that osgeo will give the funds to the participating projects to use as they see fit.)</div>
<div>So if you have ideas about what is the best procedure to receive and distribute the funds for the GRASS project</div>
<div>please share them here on the PSC list and I will compile them and provide to Rajat (note that this would be $1200 if we get 3 slots)</div>
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<div>As a backup mentor I would vote for all funds going to the main mentor or to cover some collaborative development activity (in the past</div>
<div>it would have been e.g. travel to code sprint).</div>
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<div>Helena</div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our decision as administrators is to reach out to the projects’
PSC for your comments about the following idea.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">GSoC team will deposit $400 per accepted proposal</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">The project can claim the money and distribute it to the “main” mentors and “backup” mentors as they see fit.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;vertical-align:baseline">The claim can be done after the GSoC team deposits the stipend to the OSGeo organization.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This idea has not yet been approved by the board, we need
your input to refine the idea and procedure. Based on your inputs, we will list the possible options and forward them to the OSGeo board for their comments.</span></div>
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<div>Begin forwarded message:</div>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>From:
</b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Rajat Shinde <<a href="mailto:rajatshinde2303@gmail.com" target="_blank">rajatshinde2303@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Subject:
</b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>[GSoC 2021 - Urgent] Feedback Required Regarding Disbursal of GSoC Org Payments/Mentor Stipend to the Mentors</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Date:
</b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">April 29, 2021 at 3:11:29 PM EDT<br>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>To:
</b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">Helena Mitasova <<a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Cc:
</b></span><span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans-serif">"<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://gsoc-adminosgeo.org__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OgT2kzOuBmyJ1GgnetiSxDtubr0s6L4LhpzRnknM4KCb7dxmRTEyCgB9L9BxZXvKl9LG0gE$" target="_blank">gsoc-adminosgeo.org</a>"
<<a href="mailto:gsoc-admin@osgeo.org" target="_blank">gsoc-admin@osgeo.org</a>>, Rahul Chauhan <<a href="mailto:rahulnitsxr@gmail.com" target="_blank">rahulnitsxr@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear
Prof. Mitasova,</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Greetings!<br>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I
am sending this email with regards to the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 stipend for mentors. This is OSGeo’s 15th year participating in the GSoC 2021 and GRASS GIS is one of the participating projects under the OSGeo umbrella organization. Also, this is
our second year working as OSGeo-GSoC administrators team, and since last year it came to our attention that mentors were not getting remuneration for their work. We feel that this is very unfortunate and lacks incentive for the mentors to continue mentoring.
Moreover, mentoring for GSoC is a full-time commitment and requires a lot of effort (which might vary depending on the coding and administration mentoring). </span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In
this regard, I had a meeting with the board on April 26 [1] and it was clear to me that the GSoC program does make a deposit to OSGeo. Citing below from the website for reference:</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[1]
</span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2021-04-26*Google_Summer_of_Code_organization_payment_discussion__;Iw!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OgT2kzOuBmyJ1GgnetiSxDtubr0s6L4LhpzRnknM4KCb7dxmRTEyCgB9L9BxZXvKeXr0IfY$" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2021-04-26#Google_Summer_of_Code_organization_payment_discussion</span></a></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“$400 per student
developer for your organization (often called the mentor stipend) though the money does not generally go to the actual mentor. One payment is sent to the org, and if the org wishes to disburse the funds to their mentors they are welcome to do that on their
own.”</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> [2]</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2]
</span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/org-payments*i_included_in_your_payment__;Iw!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OgT2kzOuBmyJ1GgnetiSxDtubr0s6L4LhpzRnknM4KCb7dxmRTEyCgB9L9BxZXvK4IlUhP4$" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/org-payments#i_included_in_your_payment</span></a></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">During
the meeting I mentioned the following facts:</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Accepted
proposals are required to have at least 2 mentors and one of them is the “main” mentor</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It
is strongly recommended to have 3 mentors</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The
additional mentors are “backup” mentors</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A
mentor can not mentor more than 2 proposals</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A
mentor can not be the “main” mentor of 2 or more proposals</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Having
mentioned that the number of projects participating in the OSGeo-GSoC program has been decreasing, as a comparison:</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">20
proposals in 12 projects in 2016 (</span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Accepted__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OgT2kzOuBmyJ1GgnetiSxDtubr0s6L4LhpzRnknM4KCb7dxmRTEyCgB9L9BxZXvKTLVJO-g$" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Accepted</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">13
proposals in 8 projects in 2017 (</span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Accepted__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OgT2kzOuBmyJ1GgnetiSxDtubr0s6L4LhpzRnknM4KCb7dxmRTEyCgB9L9BxZXvKT3aOjEg$" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Accepted</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">10
proposals in 8 projects in 2018 (</span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2018_Accepted__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OgT2kzOuBmyJ1GgnetiSxDtubr0s6L4LhpzRnknM4KCb7dxmRTEyCgB9L9BxZXvK53sfvj4$" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2018_Accepted</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7
proposals in 4 projects in 2019 (</span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019_Accepted__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OgT2kzOuBmyJ1GgnetiSxDtubr0s6L4LhpzRnknM4KCb7dxmRTEyCgB9L9BxZXvKDQG4IEo$" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019_Accepted</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">10
proposals in 6 projects in 2020 (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2020_Accepted__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OgT2kzOuBmyJ1GgnetiSxDtubr0s6L4LhpzRnknM4KCb7dxmRTEyCgB9L9BxZXvKi9bvTIA$" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2020_Accepted</a>)</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A
successful ex GSoC student can act as a mentor in the project he/she participated in, but they are choosing other alternatives for summer that have a remuneration or incentive.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Projects
organize the actual activities of the mentors as they see fit, some projects have specialized coding mentors who are normally project committers and the administrative mentors, that review the administrative part of the students.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After
talking with the board of directors, it was suggested to talk with the mentors or projects about the distribution of the stipend.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our
decision as administrators is to reach out to the projects’ PSC for your comments about the following idea.</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">GSoC
team will deposit $400 per accepted proposal</span></div>
</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The
project can claim the money and distribute it to the “main” mentors and “backup” mentors as they see fit.</span></div>
</li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The
claim can be done after the GSoC team deposits the stipend to the OSGeo organization.</span></div>
</li></ul>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This
idea has not yet been approved by the board, we need your input to refine the idea and procedure. Based on your inputs, we will list the possible options and forward them to the OSGeo board for their comments.</span></div>
<br>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please
forward the email to the corresponding PSC or equivalent of your project, and give us an answer as soon as possible, so that we can forward it to the OSGeo board for approval. It would be amazing if we could get the responses before the GSoC slot submission
deadline i.e. May 3rd, 2021.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kind
regards</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rajat
Shinde and Rahul Chauhan</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OSGeo-GSoC
Administration Team</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">URL:
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2021_Administrative__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!OgT2kzOuBmyJ1GgnetiSxDtubr0s6L4LhpzRnknM4KCb7dxmRTEyCgB9L9BxZXvKTTUlo58$" target="_blank">
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2021_Administrative</a></span></div>
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<div>Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences</div>
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<div>North Carolina State University</div>
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