[gsoc] Mentor Payments

[Marius Bogoevici]

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 at redhat.com>
> To: "Dan Allen" <dan.j.allen at gmail.com>
> Cc: gsoc at 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 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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