[SoC] Windup, and Mentor Summit, Mentor Payments

[Jody Garnett]

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