[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

[Tony Anderson]

I am not sure of my arithmetic. Six mentors at $500 is $3000, so 10% is 
$300 and 5% is $150. Leaving $2550 or $255 per mentor.

Tony

On 05/18/2016 02:37 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On 18 May 2016 at 04:15, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net 
> <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>> wrote:
>
>     In the case of the GSOC stipend, I assume the total amount is
>     transferred to SugarLabs. That amount is based on the number of
>     slots (6) and not on
>     the number of mentors.
>
>
> Yes, the total is based on that, but the fraction due to each mentor 
> is not, because we have more mentors than slots.
>
>     The amount is fixed per slot ($500). So SFC would take $250
>
>
> Why would SFC take 50%?
>
>     and SugarLabs would take $125.
>
>
> Why would SL take 25%
>
>     This would result in a balance of $2625 or $262.50 per each of the
>     ten mentors. Each mentor could individually decide to request the
>     $262.50 or leave it in the General Fund.
>
>
> :)
>
>     In the case of the membership donation. It appears to be a
>     donation since there is no penalty. I think it should be a
>     donation request with the amounts
>
>     as an 'expectation'.
>
>
> I don't understand. It is called a donation, and thus it is _de facto_ 
> a donation request.
>
> If you would like to amend the text I drafted, please use the 
> suggestions feature of Google Docs.
>
> If you would like to see donations solicited in totally different way, 
> please draft a counter motion and post it.
>
>     I don't understand the 'rewards' for larger donations. What is a
>     release codename?
>
>
> Its a long tradition in software projects to have names for releases; 
> Microsoft's codenames in the 90s were cities - Windows 95 was Cairo - 
> and most major free software projects use them:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Fedora_release_names
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_release_history
>
>     More importantly, I think the first step is to provide a simple
>     way for members or non-members to donate to support Sugar Labs. Is
>     this paypal, credit card or ....  Is this something that SFC must
>     provide or can SugarLabs do this on its own?
>
>
> The donate link on the wiki was not working, I didn't retrieve a 
> working link yet, but when I do I will get it back on the website :) 
> I'd be very grateful if you could help with this :D
>
> -- 
> Cheers
> Dave
>
>
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