[gsoc] Mentor Payments

[Salaboy]

Cool! Who will be the lucky ones?! 

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On 26 Jul 2012, at 18:14, Mircea Markus <mircea.markus at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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