Re: [gsoc] Mentor Payments

That's great! If we could find a non-profit organization that focuses on educational aspects, that would be great too (not that I know of one). ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anil Saldhana" <Anil.Saldhana(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Dan Allen" <dan.j.allen(a)gmail.com&gt; > Cc: gsoc(a)lists.jboss.org > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:46:18 PM > Subject: Re: [gsoc] Mentor Payments > > > > Dan, no problem. I am going to come back with a bunch of > organizations that we can support. We can then vote and then evenly > distribute the amount among the top votes to maintain parity. > > > On 07/24/2012 01:44 PM, Dan Allen wrote: > > > I have no objections to the idea, in fact I wholeheartedly support > it, but I'm curious if we'll get to vote on the organization. > > > I'd personally like to see us vote on an organization that focuses in > some way to open source on the JVM, since that's a core belief we > all (or most of us) share. Some ideas are Apache or Eclipse. I'm > open to other ideas as well. > > > > -Dan > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Anil Saldhana < > Anil.Saldhana(a)redhat.com > wrote: > > > Hi Mentors, > each mentor is entitled to $500 for the work as part of GSOC12. > Typically organizations just donate the overall mentor payment amount > to > a non-profit organization via Google. This avoids the overhead of > billing Google for the payments and deal with the tax issues. Since > mentors reside in different countries, it is not worthwhile to > dispatch > payments to mentors. > > We are going to choose a non-profit organization that supports Open > Source Software. I will announce who it will be in due course of > time. > > If you have objections and want to have that payment for yourself, > then > please email me. :) > > Regards, > Anil > _______________________________________________ > gsoc mailing list > gsoc(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc > > > > > -- > > Dan Allen Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in > Action > Registered Linux User #231597 > > > http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen > http://mojavelinux.com > http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gsoc mailing list > gsoc(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc > _______________________________________________ gsoc mailing list gsoc(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc