[Board] Budget: GSoC money

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Anne, I fully agree with changing the 5k in the current budget
draft for "Code Sprint Support" to the 11k value.  Thank you for this!
 I hope other Board members approve also.

PS. Anne is referring to the 2013 budget draft at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av9Xf1ehZXz-dHJRdGhXZlo4ako2b21qd2lXbVVMdGc&usp=sharing

-jeff



On 13-02-27 4:52 AM, Anne Ghisla wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> 
> yesterday I forgot to mention a point about Summer of Code money
> (10k, prospected).
> 
> 
> Last year I discussed a bit with Markus Neteler and some other
> people from QGIS and it would be fair to allocate that money for
> OSGeo project activities (e.g. code sprints) in proportion of the
> number of students that participated to SoC.
> 
> For example, last year GRASS had 3 students, so OSGeo received
> 1500$ for GRASS mentors. That money can be available upon request
> this year. We already did something like this with QGIS and GRASS
> during 2012/2013. Probably it's worth to state this officially, so
> that other projects are aware that they can spend GSoC money this
> way.
> 
> 
> To formalise this, I'd put all GSoC money income for 2012 (11k) as 
> available expense for Events - Code sprint support (instead of the 
> proposed 5k). Then we will keep track (as transparently as
> possible) of how much money every project asks for.
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> All the best!
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
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