[OSGeo-Discuss] Mentors money

Sat Aug 26 12:03:17 PDT 2017

We are listing GSOC as a initiative, can the participating mentors make a
decision?

I have suggestions (such as a donate to the travel grant program for
student travel) but it should be up to the participants.

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:11 AM Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:

> I believe that GSoC people should make a proposal to be discussed at board
> level, of course hints from everyone is welcome...
>
> Maxi
>
> Il 26 ago 2017 7:02 PM, "Marc Vloemans" <marcvloemans1 at gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
>> Dear Vicky,
>>
>> Before going into your question; decisions to spend money on codesprints
>> or student conference attendance has not been part of the Marketing
>> Committee remit.
>>
>> Perhaps the Board can decide on the what/where/how of this type of
>> support?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Marc Vloemans
>>
>>
>> Op 26 aug. 2017 om 18:51 heeft Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de> het
>> volgende geschreven:
>>
>>
>> 
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> 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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