Approve. Sameer On May 6, 2016 4:49 PM, "Walter Bender" <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At today's Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the motion > submitted by Sebastian Silva to allow the mentors participating in Google > Summer of Code to disperse the mentor stipend among themselves as they see > fit. I second the motion and bring it to you in an email vote. > > Background: Every year, Google provides mentoring organizations with a > stipend for the mentors. In our first year of participation in the program, > Sugar Labs mentors agreed to have the stipend directed to the Sugar Labs > general funds. We have followed the same procedure in subsequent years. > This year, however, several mentors asked if they could have access to the > stipends (which are allocated per student internship). We discussed this at > the meeting and agreed that it would be appropriate to offer these funds as > compensation and thanks to the mentors for their time and expertise (there > were no objections raised). We need to vote on this however, since the > funds are given to the mentoring organization, not the individual mentors. > > Members of the oversight board, please reply to this email solicitation > for a vote on the following motion. (Note that since I am a mentor, I think > I must recuse myself from the vote.) > > Motion: to allow the mentors participating in Google Summer of Code to > disperse the mentor stipend among themselves as they see fit. > > regards. > > -walter > > [1] > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-05-06 > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > <http://www.sugarlabs.org> > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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