[Gsoc] GSoC Mentor's summit (and bugging Sascha)

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Jameson Quinn<jameson.quinn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2009/9/5 Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>>
>> CCing our treasurer.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Jameson Quinn<jameson.quinn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > A)
>> >
>> > Mentors, you may have caught the traffic on the GSoC mentor's list about
>> > the
>> > mentor's summit on October 24th and 25th (+ some on the evening of the
>> > 23rd). Google is paying for 2 slots from each organization, but in all
>> > probability has room at the summit for more. As far as I can tell from
>> > asking on IRC, the people interested in going are Andres, Bryan, and
>> > myself.
>> > Roughly, the tickets for Andres and Bryan put together should cost the
>> > $2000
>> > that Google is fronting for travel. My ticket, including bus fare to
>> > Mexico
>> > City, should be just under $500. The options for paying that:
>> >
>> > 1. I pay myself - I would probably not be able to, so wouldn't come
>> > 2. Bryan and Andres each give me 20% of their travel subsidy, so that we
>> > all
>> > end up with 80% subsidy and paying 20% (ie, figure out how to make the
>> > percentages even). This is better from my perspective and worse from
>> > theirs.
>> > 3. Sugar Labs uses part of the $2500 it made from GSoC to fund my
>> > travel.
>> > This would of course be nice from our perspective. Walter, does it look
>> > feasible from Sugar Lab's?
>>
>> #1 is unacceptable. Re #3, I don't know if that money is fungible, in
>> that I thought it was designated to go to the mentors, in which case,
>> there is little difference between #2 and #3 except the "pain" is
>> spread a bit further--to all five of us. But personally, I support
>> that option. Maybe we can ask each mentor to volunteer 20% of their
>> honorarium?
>
> Oh, you consider it an honorarium for the mentor? Google considers it a
> subsidy for the organization, to use however the organization chooses, and
> most orgs do not just hand it over to the mentor in cash. Certainly, I would
> have no objection to getting $500 in cash, but that was not my expectation.
> I suppose we have to answer this question before we choose between #2 and
> #3. (Bryan already expressed some openness to #2, by the way.)
>
>

It was my recollection, but I don't know for sure. In any case, it
should be used for advancing the cause and bringing people together is
in the right spirit. I defer to our treasurer.

-walter


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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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