[Board] Budget: GSoC money

[Daniel Morissette]

I agree and support the idea as well.

Just one question though: Does this go to a global/general "Code Sprint 
Support" budget, or is the money earmarked to be assigned only based on 
number of mentors per project in the previous year?

I'd prefer supporting code sprints in general for all projects and not 
getting stuck in tracking and returning exactly the money corresponding 
to the number of mentors.

Daniel

On 13-02-27 7:12 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> 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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