[SoC] Windup, and Mentor Summit, Mentor Payments
Richard Gould
rwgould at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 01:15:31 EDT 2007
On 8/31/07, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > The program includes a $500USD payment for each mentor. These
> > payments are made to the mentor organization (OSGeo). It isn't clear
> > to me what we are going to do with this money. Should OSGeo try and
> > distribute it to all the mentors? Should we consider it a
> > "contribution to OSGeo"?
>
> Personally, I think this is a very good idea to consider mentoring as a
> contribution to the foundation. Probably, single payment of $500 USD is
> not a big thing but if we put them together we have a pretty nice amount
> to spend on OSGeo projects.
I agree, and I certainly wouldn't mind contributing my share to the
foundation (there certainly was some overhead on the foundations
behalf, no?). Although as a student paying for tuition, I also would
not mind the small amount of income.
Richard
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