Hello all
This thread started on the osgeo mentors list.
By suggestion of Margherita I tried to move it to
marketing, but it never arrived, so I am sending to
discuss..
Sorry I can not give you links to the different
responses, it so happens that OSGeo google mentors
mailing list is private (for what ever reason).
Please have a look.
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From: *Margherita Di Leo* <[email protected]
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Date: Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [OSGeo GSoC Mentors] Hello all
To: [email protected]
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Dear Vicky, Maxi, all,
The money that OSGeo gets from Google is this year
500USD per student. Before i was admin and also before
i acted as a mentor, this matter was discussed among
the mentors at the time, whether to distribute the
money among the mentors or to destinate them to
another use, being this decision up to the
organizations participating in gsoc. As far as i can
tell, the problem of distributing the money to the
mentors was to make a lot of small payments of which a
considerable part would be eaten by bank transfers and
currency changes. So it was agreed that the whole sum
should be used to support code sprints instead.
Now, if you guys think this should be discussed over
again, you're welcome, but this would apply to next
year's budget, and should be agreed upon by all mentors.
My personal opinion: I think it more useful to use the
budget for a common purpose rather than distributing
it in small amounts, for example if you don't like it
destinated to code sprints, would be to use it for
financial support for students to attend conferences.
For example at fosdem we have been organizing the
geospatial session and i have every year invited our
gsoc students to present their works but they couldn't
afford the travel and accommodation.
Google also gives 500USD for supporting students
travel to conferences, you mentors will be asked to
propose a name of a deserving gsoc student and an
event that he or she would like to attend and in case
of multiple names we will either split the aid or
choose among the students. Last year if I remember
correctly this call was made directly to mentors by
google to provide names to them of deserving students,
but i'm not aware if anyone of osgeo made the request
or got funded.
Back to your specific request, Vicky, I suggest you
address this to the osgeo marketing committee , that
is administering osgeo's budget, and they should be
able to give you an answer.
Il giorno ven 25 ago 2017 alle 17:22 Massimiliano
Cannata <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto:
Hi Viky and all,
sorry to be direct (as always :-D) but..
As far as I know, nobody ever used the mentor money.
They were always, silently (I hear some rumors on
this), retained by OSGeo as organization.
If is possible to use that money, I think this
should be clearly stated along with the procedure
to access it.
As long term istSOS mentor, i would also be
interested in using these money to support
dissemination of the project.
Regards,
Maxi
2017-08-25 17:09 GMT+02:00 Vicky Vergara
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>:
Hi,
pgRouting team members, have being
participating mentoring since even before I
joined the team.
There is a FOSS4G in Argentina, and we would
like to use some of the money that was for
mentors, to support that trip.
Do you know how to get those funds? and/or the
process to get those funds?
The money is planned to be used in:
- airplane fare for 1 person
- hotel
- pgRouting, OSGeo and OSGeo-GSoC poster
promotionals
Vicky
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