[SoC] Windup, and Mentor Summit, Mentor Payments
Jody Garnett
jgarnett at refractions.net
Sun Sep 2 21:19:28 EDT 2007
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We have had a successful program this summer, and all our surveys are in
> on time. Only one student failed - he seemed to disappear after the
> midterm
> survey. I'm very pleased with the work on GDAL that I am directly
> familiar
> with.
Thanks for all you hard work Frank, and to Landon and Cory as well.
> Mentor Summit
> -------------
> Google has indicated that OSGeo is welcome to send up to three delegates
> to the Summer of Code Mentor Conference October 6th. Google is
> reembursing
> reasonable travel expenses (upto $500 within US, $1200 from outside) and
> providing a hotel for one night.
>
> If anyone is potentially interested, let me know and I can provide some
> details.
I am interested :-) But I am not sure any of us are going to be in shape
after FOSS4G. Is Landon or yourself going to be going?
> Mentor Payments
> ---------------
> 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"? Should we
> make
> it optional for the mentor?
It sounds like we should make it optional; especially for mentors that
have need.
Cheers,
Jody
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