Hi :) I think that final figure was meant to be $500 rather than $5,000? Earlier it said $500 per person or something?
Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Olivier Hallot <olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org> To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Thu, 18 August, 2011 11:29:10 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] Proposal: how to use the GSoC money Hi Thorsten, All... Em 17-08-2011 11:09, Thorsten Behrens escreveu: > Hi there, > > with GSoC 2011 nearing its end, it's the time of invoicing Google > for the organisation money donations, and the mentor summit travel > reimbursements. > > Since we're an accepted SPI subproject, it's easiest to route the > money that way (SPI is a registered vendor at Google). > > There are a few nice conventions on how to spend this money, and I'd > like to make the formal proposal to keep them also here with TDF: > > * google pays travel for two gsoc mentors, to attend the mentor > summit in october. conventionally, the org admins go there, > mingle with the other orgs' admins, and conspire to make GSoC > even better next year. note that this part of the google donation > is earmarked for specifically this travel (google wants to see > ticket invoices separately) > * google pays $500 per student to the mentoring organizations; in > past years, we've used that money (in part) to pay travel > stipends for successful students, to attend the conference. > > Proposal: > * accept GSoC money through SPI +1 > * reimburse Fridrich and Cedric for their travel to the mentor > summit +1 > * offer travel stipends to successful students, for the LibOCon +1 > * cap above expenses at $5000 (the amount we receive from Google) - > or slightly less, does SPI charge us something for handling the > money? > > Let's discuss and (if possible) approve this on this Saturday's SC > call. > +1 > Cheers, > > -- Thorsten > Regards -- Olivier Hallot Founder, Steering Commitee Member - The Document Foundation Voicing the enterprise needs LibreOffice translation leader for Brazilian Portuguese +55-21-8822-8812 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
