[gsoc] Mentor Payments

[Mircea Markus]

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 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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