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

[Tony Anderson]

Disapprove.

Comment. I would prefer to see the motion that mentors can request the 
funds allotted to them. Any funds not requested go to the Sugar general 
fund.

Tony

On 05/07/2016 12:49 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> At today's Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the 
> motion submitted by Sebastian Silva to allow the mentors participating 
> in Google Summer of Code to disperse the mentor stipend among 
> themselves as they see fit. I second the motion and bring it to you in 
> an email vote.
>
> Background: Every year, Google provides mentoring organizations with a 
> stipend for the mentors. In our first year of participation in the 
> program, Sugar Labs mentors agreed to have the stipend directed to the 
> Sugar Labs general funds. We have followed the same procedure in 
> subsequent years. This year, however, several mentors asked if they 
> could have access to the stipends (which are allocated per student 
> internship). We discussed this at the meeting and agreed that it would 
> be appropriate to offer these funds as compensation and thanks to the 
> mentors for their time and expertise (there were no objections 
> raised). We need to vote on this however, since the funds are given to 
> the mentoring organization, not the individual mentors.
>
> Members of the oversight board, please reply to this email 
> solicitation for a vote on the following motion. (Note that since I am 
> a mentor, I think I must recuse myself from the vote.)
>
> Motion: to allow the mentors participating in Google Summer of Code to 
> disperse the mentor stipend among themselves as they see fit.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> [1] 
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06
>
>
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> Walter Bender
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