Google has paid the money for GSoC 2014. This includes: - reimbursement of airfares for Robert and I to attend the summit this weekend. I already paid out the money due to Robert.
- a mentor stipend of $500 for each of the five projects (total $2500) The $2500 is currently in an account that I control and I would like to make sure it is handled in the right way for the Ganglia community. Some projects simply give each mentor the $500. No mentor has requested this but I have no objection to paying out the money in this way. As two of us (Robert and I) are funded to attend the summit in Mountain View, I personally felt that the $2500 could be spread across the other mentors and Ganglia contributors to attend conferences and give talks about Ganglia. Another idea is for Ganglia to have its own bank account and use this money as the opening balance. Organizations like Software in the Public Interest (SPI) and the Software Freedom Conservancy can do a lot of the administrative work to run the account. They can accept further (tax deductible) donations into the account and pay money out. Even with this outsourcing approach there is some overhead cost and some project members may need to form a committee or board to oversee the expenditure. If that is too much effort, then it is possible to simply give the money to a bigger open source project (e.g. Debian is raising money for various things like DebConf and OPW) or even to give some or all of the money to charity. The Ganglia book royalties currently go to Scholarship America. Maybe there are other charities people would like, e.g. those dealing with the Ebola crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
