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

[Lori Bowen Ayre]

Dan,

Since you made the decision PRIOR to SFC involvement, you get my generous++
as well as my +1 for attending the Summit.

Thanks for all your hard work on behalf of all of us!

Lori


On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> 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? :)
>
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