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

[McKinney, Elizabeth]

Thanks to Dan and Galen for their generosity!  

Elizabeth

Elizabeth McKinney 
PINES Program Director 
Georgia Public Library Service 
A Unit of the University System of Georgia
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta GA 30345
404.235.7141
emckinney at georgialibraries.org
http://www.georgialibraries.org/





----- Original Message -----
From: "Lori Bowen Ayre" <lori.ayre at galecia.com>
To: "Dan Scott" <dan at coffeecode.net>
Cc: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn at sfconservancy.org>, evergreen at sfconservancy.org, eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:39:58 PM
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code Mentorship Summit 2011

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? :)