[Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Motion (1 of 2) GSoC Stipends

[Tony Anderson]

I second the motion and approve it.

Tony

On 06/04/2016 03:02 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> We did not have time to take action on two motions at yesterday's 
> meeting. Please review the motion below. If an oversight board seconds 
> the motion, then we can bring it up for a vote by email.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
>
> Motion regarding GSoC mentoring stipends
>
> Motion: Whereas it is the general policy of Sugar Labs to retain all 
> GSoC mentoring stipends in the General Fund, if a mentor asks a GSoC 
> Admin (for example in 2016, Walter or Lionel) to pay a stipend to a 
> mentor, their share of the stipend amount will be disbursed without 
> further motions to approve the spending. The share is calculated from 
> the total awarded for the GSoC slot by Google, minus 10% (as all Sugar 
> Labs income is donated to Software Freedom Conservancy for 
> organisational services), minus 5% (retained for Sugar Labs General 
> Funds),  divided by the number of mentors for the project. For 
> example, in a year with 6 slots and 10 mentors at $500, the total 
> revenue is $3,000; 10% for Conservancy is $300 and 5% for Sugar Labs 
> is $150, leaving a total of $2,550 or $255 per mentor.
>
> ----
>
> Note that an earlier version of this motion failed:
>
> Failed Motion
>
> Motion: To allow the mentors participating in Google Summer of Code to 
> disperse the mentor stipend among themselves as they see fit.
>
> Further discussion of this motion can be found beginning at [1].
>
> [1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2016-May/018130.html
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