On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:12 PM Ulrike Uhlig <ulr...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hello! > > On 18.03.20 12:01, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 5:26 PM Daniel Lange <dla...@debian.org> wrote: > > [...] > >> As Debian can afford paying for its interns itself, we do. > > > > This looks bad to me. Should Debian pay directly to its contributors? > > PS, IMO it's totally fine that other parties to pay Debian > > contributors, like the LTS program. > > Why not? > > The money comes from people and companies who explicitly support Debian > to do this work, just like the work on LTS. > > This investment is aiming at making Debian a more diverse community, > which it currently isn't (1010 DDs, out of which less than 30, last time > I counted, are female, trans, inter, queer aka. FTIQ*). > Research has shown [1] that this is due to a variety of reasons, one of > which is the lack of free time or financial support and free time for > these people. > > We are talking about a total payment of 5000 USD (minus taxes for the > contributors according to their country's tax law) per intern. This > money is not received for nothing but for doing three months of > full-time work that advances a variety of projects in Debian. > > After which interns generally continue to contribute for free, if the > mentoring program hasn't been horribly bad at supporting them to do so. >
Just to clarify, I appreciate all the mentoring/diverse works. If Outreachy program is same as GSoC, which is paid by a company, I have no doubt about it. I only concerns that Debian pays _directly_. -- Shengjing Zhu
