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

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 <mailto:Anil.Saldhana@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 <mailto:gsoc@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

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

Seems like Google also sponsors 2 mentors to participate in the "GSoC 2012: Mentor Summit" in October 22 & 23 which is pretty awesome! On 24 Jul 2012, at 20:55, Marius Bogoevici wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ gsoc mailing list gsoc(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc