<div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/5 Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> CCing our treasurer. <div class="im"> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Jameson Quinn<<a href="mailto:jameson.quinn@gmail.com">jameson.quinn@gmail.com</a>> 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? </div>#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? </blockquote><div> 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.) </div></div>