Hi -- >> * Who volunteers to be a mentor? If you want to be a mentor, please >> let me know, and also tell me what project you want to mentor (if it's >> not obvious). > > I'm willing to mentor -- libgeda/Scheme projects again.
Wonderful! Thank you! I'll put you on the "list". Anybody else!?!? Sign up now or I'll start to send personalized nag e-mails to the relevant suspects! And you know who you are!! ;-) By the way, it occurred to me last night that I don't mean to hog the job of admin to myself if there are others willing to do the task. If somebody else wants to be GSoC admin this year, please speak up and I'll be happy to hand you the reins! But if nobody else steps up, then I'll gladly continue to do the job. >> Assuming we go ahead and do GSoC in 2009, I propose to do something >> different with the money: Sent the whole thing to the Linux Fund for >> the PCB project. This has two benefits: 1. It transfers money to a >> good cause which we all care about, and 2. It will get me out of the >> business of doing money transfers. Any objections? > > Yes. It would be nice to keep some 'rainy-day money' for emergencies e.g. > funding new servers or hosting if we suddenly need it. Interesting point. I think the action item here is to ping Ales and see what our financial standing is w.r.t. paying for the hosting service. IIRC, he pays it out of pocket, and it's not that expensive. However, if he thinks he'd like some help, we can see about using some of the GSoC money for that. My issue is simply that if I handle the money, and set aside some of it to deal with hosting (or anything else), then I have to be dilligent about collecting receipts. Otherwise, I end up paying taxes on the money. > (Also, we really should set up a not-for-profit corporation to deal with this > stuff, and see if we can get its income tax-free). True enough. And it's very true that we've talked about this at great length over time, but have not taken any action. The reason is the usual barrier -- time -- as well as the fact that the effort required is not worth it if we're only going to handle a few hundred dollars. The sums mooted for the PCB project and run through Linux Fund are more in the ballpark where a gEDA non-profit makes sense to me. However, in that case there is already a non-profit in place to handle the donations: Linux Fund. Cheers, Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list geda-dev@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
