[Board] GSoC mentor payments - information

[Anne Ghisla]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:33:27 +0100
Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:36 AM, Daniel Morissette
> <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
> ...
> > If one decides to claim their 500$ for mentoring, then would the
> > payment be handled directly by Google or is OSGeo expected to make
> > the payment to the mentor?
> >
> > I ask this because if OSGeo receives the money from Google and then
> > makes the payment to an individual then there may be tax
> > implications that we are not prepared/setup to handle.
> 
> I would expect that it is handled in the same way as for the
> students...

The students payment does not involve OSGeo at all: it is handled
directly by Google via a debit card. 

Meanwhile, I've asked on gsoc-mentors list about the decisions of other
organisations about this topic. I'll report back soon.

best,
Anne
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