[gsoc] Mentor Payments

[Anil Saldhana]

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 at redhat.com <mailto:Anil.Saldhana at 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
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