[OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

Sat Aug 26 09:51:48 PDT 2017

Hello all
This thread started on the osgeo mentors list.
By suggestion of Margherita I tried to move it to marketing, but it never
arrived, so I am sending to discuss..
Sorry I can not give you links to the different responses, it so happens
that OSGeo google mentors mailing list is private (for what ever reason).

Please have a look.

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From: Margherita Di Leo <dileomargherita at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [OSGeo GSoC Mentors] Hello all
To: osgeo-gsoc-mentors at googlegroups.com

Dear Vicky, Maxi, all,

The money that OSGeo gets from Google is this year 500USD per student.
Before i was admin and also before i acted as a mentor, this matter was
discussed among the mentors at the time, whether to distribute the money
among the mentors or to destinate them to another use, being this decision
up to the organizations participating in gsoc. As far as i can tell, the
problem of distributing the money to the mentors was to make a lot of small
payments of which a considerable part would be eaten by bank transfers and
currency changes. So it was agreed that the whole sum should be used to
support code sprints instead.
Now, if you guys think this should be discussed over again, you're welcome,
but this would apply to next year's budget, and should be agreed upon by
all mentors.
My personal opinion: I think it more useful to use the budget for a common
purpose rather than distributing it in small amounts, for example if you
don't like it destinated to code sprints, would be to use it for financial
support for students to attend conferences. For example at fosdem we have
been organizing the geospatial session and i have every year invited our
gsoc students to present their works but they couldn't afford the travel
and accommodation.
Google also gives 500USD for supporting students travel to conferences, you
mentors will be asked to propose a name of a deserving gsoc student and an
event that he or she would like to attend and in case of multiple names we
will either split the aid or choose among the students. Last year if I
remember correctly this call was made directly to mentors by google to
provide names to them of deserving students, but i'm not aware if anyone of
osgeo made the request or got funded.
Back to your specific request, Vicky, I suggest you address this to the
osgeo marketing committee , that is administering osgeo's budget, and they
should be able to give you an answer.

Il giorno ven 25 ago 2017 alle 17:22 Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> ha scritto:

> Hi Viky and all,
> sorry to be direct (as always :-D) but..
>
> As far as I know, nobody ever used the mentor money.
> They were always, silently (I hear some rumors on this), retained by OSGeo
> as organization.
>
> If is possible to use that money, I think this should be clearly stated
> along with the procedure to access it.
> As long term istSOS mentor, i would also be interested in using these
> money to support dissemination of the project.
>
> Regards,
> Maxi
>
> 2017-08-25 17:09 GMT+02:00 Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>> pgRouting team members, have being participating mentoring since even
>> before I joined the team.
>> There is a FOSS4G in Argentina, and we would like to use some of the
>> money that was for mentors, to support that trip.
>> Do you know how to get those funds? and/or the process to get those funds?
>> The money is planned to be used in:
>> - airplane fare for 1 person
>> - hotel
>> - pgRouting, OSGeo and OSGeo-GSoC poster promotionals
>>
>>
>> Vicky
>>
>>
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