[gsoc] Mentor Payments

[Dan Allen]

Super!

-Dan

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Anil Saldhana <Anil.Saldhana at redhat.com>wrote:

>  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.
>
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> 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>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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