Dear Vicky, Before going into your question; decisions to spend money on codesprints or student conference attendance has not been part of the Marketing Committee remit.
Perhaps the Board can decide on the what/where/how of this type of support? Kind regards, Marc Vloemans > Op 26 aug. 2017 om 18:51 heeft Vicky Vergara <vi...@georepublic.de> het > volgende geschreven: > > > > Hello all > This thread started on the osgeo mentors list. > By suggestion of Margherita I tried to move it to marketing, but it never > arrived, so I am sending to discuss.. > Sorry I can not give you links to the different responses, it so happens that > OSGeo google mentors mailing list is private (for what ever reason). > > Please have a look. > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Margherita Di Leo <dileomargher...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:01 AM > Subject: Re: [OSGeo GSoC Mentors] Hello all > To: osgeo-gsoc-ment...@googlegroups.com > > > Dear Vicky, Maxi, all, > > The money that OSGeo gets from Google is this year 500USD per student. Before > i was admin and also before i acted as a mentor, this matter was discussed > among the mentors at the time, whether to distribute the money among the > mentors or to destinate them to another use, being this decision up to the > organizations participating in gsoc. As far as i can tell, the problem of > distributing the money to the mentors was to make a lot of small payments of > which a considerable part would be eaten by bank transfers and currency > changes. So it was agreed that the whole sum should be used to support code > sprints instead. > Now, if you guys think this should be discussed over again, you're welcome, > but this would apply to next year's budget, and should be agreed upon by all > mentors. > My personal opinion: I think it more useful to use the budget for a common > purpose rather than distributing it in small amounts, for example if you > don't like it destinated to code sprints, would be to use it for financial > support for students to attend conferences. For example at fosdem we have > been organizing the geospatial session and i have every year invited our gsoc > students to present their works but they couldn't afford the travel and > accommodation. > Google also gives 500USD for supporting students travel to conferences, you > mentors will be asked to propose a name of a deserving gsoc student and an > event that he or she would like to attend and in case of multiple names we > will either split the aid or choose among the students. Last year if I > remember correctly this call was made directly to mentors by google to > provide names to them of deserving students, but i'm not aware if anyone of > osgeo made the request or got funded. > Back to your specific request, Vicky, I suggest you address this to the osgeo > marketing committee , that is administering osgeo's budget, and they should > be able to give you an answer. > > > > Il giorno ven 25 ago 2017 alle 17:22 Massimiliano Cannata > <massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch> ha scritto: >> Hi Viky and all, >> sorry to be direct (as always :-D) but.. >> >> As far as I know, nobody ever used the mentor money. >> They were always, silently (I hear some rumors on this), retained by OSGeo >> as organization. >> >> If is possible to use that money, I think this should be clearly stated >> along with the procedure to access it. >> As long term istSOS mentor, i would also be interested in using these money >> to support dissemination of the project. >> >> Regards, >> Maxi >> >> 2017-08-25 17:09 GMT+02:00 Vicky Vergara <vi...@georepublic.de>: >>> Hi, >>> pgRouting team members, have being participating mentoring since even >>> before I joined the team. >>> There is a FOSS4G in Argentina, and we would like to use some of the money >>> that was for mentors, to support that trip. >>> Do you know how to get those funds? and/or the process to get those funds? >>> The money is planned to be used in: >>> - airplane fare for 1 person >>> - hotel >>> - pgRouting, OSGeo and OSGeo-GSoC poster promotionals >>> >>> >>> Vicky >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "OSGeo GSoC Mentors" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to osgeo-gsoc-mentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> Massimiliano Cannata >> Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica >> Responsabile settore Geomatica >> >> Istituto scienze della Terra >> Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design >> Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana >> Campus Trevano, CH - 6952 Canobbio >> Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14 >> Fax +41 (0)58 666 62 09 >> massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch >> www.supsi.ch/ist >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "OSGeo GSoC Mentors" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to osgeo-gsoc-mentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Margherita Di Leo > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OSGeo GSoC Mentors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to osgeo-gsoc-mentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt) > Salzmannstraße 44, > 81739 München, Germany > > Vicky Vergara > Operations Research > > eMail: vi...@georepublic.de > Web: https://georepublic.info > > Tel: +49 (089) 4161 7698-1 > Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9 > > Commercial register: Amtsgericht München, HRB 181428 > CEO: Daniel Kastl > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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