[Eg-oversight-board] Google Summer of Code Mentorship Summit 2011

[Dan Scott]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:58:07AM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> Dan Scott wrote at 21:55 (EDT) on Wednesday:
> 
> > Oh, and one more thing: apart from the Mentorship Summit expense
> > reimbursement, Google will also be sending a $500 stipend for each of
> > this years mentors (Galen and I) to the SFC, to be deposited in the
> > earmarked Evergreen account. Galen and I agreed back when we were
> > accepted into the GSoC that we wanted to contribute our stipends to
> > the Evergreen project
> 
> Just a note on the mentor payments: from Google's point of view, the
> mentor payments are for the mentoring organization, not the mentors
> themselves.  In Conservancy's context, that means the mentor payments
> are revenue for the member project in question.
> 
> A few years ago, a few of Conservancy's projects decided that it would
> route those mentor payments to the mentors themselves rather than spend
> it on other project activity.  This led to  a Conservancy tradition that
> we ask the leadership of each project if they'd like to keep the money
> for the project or pay some part of it to the mentors as a 1099
> contractor payment for their work in the summer.
> 
> This question is moot for Evergreen this year, since Dan and Galen do
> want the funds to go to Evergreen anyway, but I want to be clear that
> the decision on this first lies with the Evergreen Oversight Board, not
> the mentors (although, there have been cases where a projects'
> leadership passed its authority to decide on to the mentors themselves).

Sheesh. Do I at least get points for trying to _look_ generous? :)