On 16 September 2014 11:33, Sébastien Wilmet <swil...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 09:07:18PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: >> But we should stop guessing or making assumption now and wait for >> someone from the travel committee or with the relevant knowledge about >> that budget to confirm what is done with this money. > > We are still waiting for a response here. What is the approximative > budget allocated directly by the Gnome Foundation for outreach? > Including GUADEC attendance sponsorship for GSoC students and OPW > interns. And including at least the two OPW interns in 2013 sponsored > directly by the Gnome Foundation. > > I'm just curious. There are other ways to use this budget, or at least > reduce the outreach budget quite significantly without loosing much, > IMHO.
I will try to answer all of your question about financial data, but please let me know if I miss anything. The USD 500.00 which the Foundation receives from Google per GSoC intern goes into general funds which are spent on hackfests, conferences, other events, employees, hardware and outreach. Google also offer up to USD 500.00 per exceptional intern towards travel to events. This USD 500.00 is unrelated to the money that I mention above. In 2013, Google were kind enough to be able to give GNOME an exceptionally large amount towards GSoC intern travel, which has meant these funds were not available to GNOME this year. All GSoC interns attending events in 2014 were sponsored within allocated travel budgets out of general funds or by sponsors for that event. OPW currently requires the sponsoring organisation to cover USD 500.00 of travel costs per intern. Up to this point in time, the travel of GNOME interns has always been covered by external sponsors. Before this came into effect, GNOME OPW intern travel sponsorship always came from the allocated travel budgets for that event from the general funds or from sponsors for that event. GNOME put $10000 towards interns in the 2013 financial year and $5000 in the 2014 financial year. That is one intern per OPW round except summer 2014 which was completely covered by external sponsors. There is currently a vote happening on the board mailing list with regards to sponsoring an intern for winter 2014/2015, which will come to USD 6000.00 if it passes. It is hoped that external sponsors can be found to cover all GNOME interns again. Apart from the internship programs, outreach-related items also show up in the marketing expenses (generally sending the GNOME events boxes to events) and the events expenses (generally funding for people to attend events or hold them). Kat > Sébastien > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
