[SoC] Windup, and Mentor Summit, Mentor Payments

[Richard Gould]

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