Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Fabiano Fidêncio
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Sébastien Wilmet swil...@gnome.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 09:07:18PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: But we should stop guessing or making assumption now and wait for someone from the travel committee or with the relevant knowledge about that budget

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:17:04PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:54:44PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: I do believe GNOME Foundation should have a clear (and well documented) way for

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 15:22 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: - Writing a book, another actionable item. My school told me to buy a Qt textbook when I was a freshman, even though the class didn't involve Qt and we have zero Qt-related classes. Simply having the book increased Qt's exposure. What if

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Sébastien Wilmet swil...@gnome.org wrote: Alexandre pointed out that GUADEC is at the right time. But not every OPW rounds are during the summer! So some OPW interns go to GUADEC several months later than the round. So why not doing the same also for GSoC and

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Alberto Ruiz
It seems to me that this thread has turn into a series of counter arguments with no specific direction. Before we go ahead, can we please clarify: a) What problem are we trying to solve. and b) How is that problem a bigger problem that the one's we are solving and whether that's a problem the

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio fabi...@fidencio.org wrote: I do believe GNOME Foundation should have a clear (and well documented) way for people raising their questions wrt how the GNOME Foundation's money is spent. I *do* understand it's keep private for security reasons

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 16 September 2014 16:09, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio fabi...@fidencio.org wrote: I do believe GNOME Foundation should have a clear (and well documented) way for people raising their questions wrt how the GNOME

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 10:22 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: So it's better to only have 15 students working on important things, rather than having these 15 students, plus 10 others working on less important things? Nope! But maybe with a better selection process we could instead end up with

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Hashem Nasarat
On 09/16/2014 12:22 PM, Alexandre Franke wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 September 2014 16:09, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports/ is a bit outdated, but it exists. minor

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Pascal Terjan
On 16 September 2014 17:44, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: hi Alexandre; On 16 September 2014 17:22, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 September 2014 16:09, Alexandre Franke

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 10:28 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 16:07 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: I'm sure you're confusing me with somebody else. I don't live in the US, I only work for a US company. I live in the UK. Whoops; I was thinking that Endless is based in San

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 16 September 2014 11:33, Sébastien Wilmet swil...@gnome.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 09:07:18PM +0200, Alexandre Franke wrote: But we should stop guessing or making assumption now and wait for someone from the travel committee or with the relevant knowledge about that budget to

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 16 September 2014 16:12, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 September 2014 16:09, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio fabi...@fidencio.org wrote: I do believe GNOME Foundation should have a clear (and well

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 03:16:26PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: it's also very much C-centered, whereas we want more people to use C only for core library components. A good practice for writing an application is to write the backend as an internal library, so it can easily be used later by

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Hashem Nasarat hnasa...@gmail.com wrote: Page 12 in the 2013 annual report (http://www.gnome.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/GNOME-Annual-Report-2013.pdf) has financial information for 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. Is this not what you're looking for? No, it's

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:27:43PM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: I have proposed to the board that a financial report should be published every month as that will enable the membership to be better informed. I am already presenting a financial report to the board on a monthly basis, so it

Re: OPW; Where does the 500$ for each GSoC goes?

2014-09-16 Thread Sébastien Wilmet
Thank you very much for your answer, Kat. On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:12:15PM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: interns attending events in 2014 were sponsored within allocated travel budgets out of general funds or by sponsors for that event. For the budget allocated for travel, would it be a