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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Having signed up as co-/backup mentor too, I very much support Helenas suggestion:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">“</span><span lang="EN-US">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 it would have been
e.g. travel to code sprint).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Getting paid for mentoring would probably cause more administrative overhead for me than justified…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Also, using the funds as an incentive for further participation of the students after GSoC (e.g. travel funds to Community sprints once in person again) could be a nice way of using
the money… Unless, main mentors have other ideas…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Also, for those mentors who can accept payment, that is legit compensation to accept, in my view…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Stefan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> grass-psc <grass-psc-bounces@lists.osgeo.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Helena Mitasova<br>
<b>Sent:</b> fredag 30. april 2021 03:00<br>
<b>To:</b> GRASS-PSC <grass-psc@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Anna Petrasova <akratoc@ncsu.edu>; Vaclav Petras <vpetras@ncsu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GRASS-PSC] Fwd: [GSoC 2021 - Urgent] Feedback Required Regarding Disbursal of GSoC Org Payments/Mentor Stipend to the Mentors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">compensation. Feel free to read the entire message below but here is the important part (note that I was at the board meeting <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So if you have ideas about what is the best procedure to receive and distribute the funds for the GRASS project<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">it would have been e.g. travel to code sprint).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Helena<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Our decision as administrators is to reach out to the projects’ PSC for your comments about the following idea.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">GSoC team will deposit $400 per accepted proposal<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The project can claim the money and distribute it to the “main” mentors and “backup” mentors as they see fit.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The claim can be done after the GSoC team deposits the stipend to the OSGeo organization.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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
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<p class="MsoNormal">Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Rajat Shinde <<a href="mailto:rajatshinde2303@gmail.com">rajatshinde2303@gmail.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Subject: [GSoC 2021 - Urgent] Feedback Required Regarding Disbursal of GSoC Org Payments/Mentor Stipend to the Mentors</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Date: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">April 29, 2021 at 3:11:29 PM EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">To: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Helena Mitasova <<a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Cc: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">"<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgsoc-adminosgeo.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C0534d71311d04f54c8a008d90b745002%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637553416461815901%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=K06GNJkv1h8qJDBVBlHy2E01375W94eB5Y%2Bp8sS%2FjsE%3D&reserved=0">gsoc-adminosgeo.org</a>"
<<a href="mailto:gsoc-admin@osgeo.org">gsoc-admin@osgeo.org</a>>, Rahul Chauhan <<a href="mailto:rahulnitsxr@gmail.com">rahulnitsxr@gmail.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Prof. Mitasova,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">[1] </span>
<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.osgeo.org%2Fwiki%2FBoard_Meeting_2021-04-26%23Google_Summer_of_Code_organization_payment_discussion&data=04%7C01%7C%7C0534d71311d04f54c8a008d90b745002%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637553416461815901%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=KDuDQ9TJdVFMDk81e%2FIVW%2FqlhtxQNGblpBFRkE3N6uc%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1155CC">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2021-04-26#Google_Summer_of_Code_organization_payment_discussion</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>“$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.”</i> [2]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">[2] </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">During the meeting I mentioned the following facts:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Accepted proposals are required to have at least 2 mentors and one of them is the “main” mentor<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It is strongly recommended to have 3 mentors<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The additional mentors are “backup” mentors<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A mentor can not mentor more than 2 proposals<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A mentor can not be the “main” mentor of 2 or more proposals<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Having mentioned that the number of projects participating in the OSGeo-GSoC program has been decreasing, as a comparison:<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">20 proposals in 12 projects in 2016 (<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.osgeo.org%2Fwiki%2FGoogle_Summer_of_Code_2016_Accepted&data=04%7C01%7C%7C0534d71311d04f54c8a008d90b745002%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637553416461825891%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=kxd2K%2F5GG6InYBSuMztpq4hYXXIIvlYdRy%2F%2FBqpiMLY%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2016_Accepted</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">13 proposals in 8 projects in 2017 (<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.osgeo.org%2Fwiki%2FGoogle_Summer_of_Code_2017_Accepted&data=04%7C01%7C%7C0534d71311d04f54c8a008d90b745002%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637553416461835891%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=IkUwPJleVoHzFwGvLiZyUe1DJdXGsWn5IyK1r6z4gwc%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2017_Accepted</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">10 proposals in 8 projects in 2018 (<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.osgeo.org%2Fwiki%2FGoogle_Summer_of_Code_2018_Accepted&data=04%7C01%7C%7C0534d71311d04f54c8a008d90b745002%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637553416461835891%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=7jl8X9dBT9HamrTfbBqnyEV5dFoHVFRzFXrbVvkPZws%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2018_Accepted</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">7 proposals in 4 projects in 2019 (<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.osgeo.org%2Fwiki%2FGoogle_Summer_of_Code_2019_Accepted&data=04%7C01%7C%7C0534d71311d04f54c8a008d90b745002%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637553416461845881%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=QSJyhY8AJd%2F4RalgqJGoKHwbz4wSi%2B5AR3wNV9zEH%2BM%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019_Accepted</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">10 proposals in 6 projects in 2020 (<a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.osgeo.org%2Fwiki%2FGoogle_Summer_of_Code_2020_Accepted&data=04%7C01%7C%7C0534d71311d04f54c8a008d90b745002%7C6cef373021314901831055b3abf02c73%7C0%7C0%7C637553416461845881%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=LzilWZGRKcrzl0tuApS3TM0s9%2Bt%2B1meNCkyDq9PLnE8%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2020_Accepted</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">After talking with the board of directors, it was suggested to talk with the mentors or projects about the distribution of the stipend.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Our decision as administrators is to reach out to the projects’ PSC for your comments about the following idea.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">GSoC team will deposit $400 per accepted proposal<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The project can claim the money and distribute it to the “main” mentors and “backup” mentors as they see fit.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The claim can be done after the GSoC team deposits the stipend to the OSGeo organization.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rajat Shinde and Rahul Chauhan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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