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

[Dave Crossland]

Hi

On 18 May 2016 at 04:15, Tony Anderson <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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